Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tech., Dartmouth, Tufts, Amherst and Williams purpose to form a foot-ball league...
...York Times says that voluntary (?) punches is the latest form of hazing at Harvard...
After some preliminary rushing, passing and kicking, the men began to get limbered, and two sides were selected by Captain Kimball. A short game was played, throughout which the men were coached by Kimball, assisted by Adams, '86. Of course they played in no form, but they show a determination to do all that was in their power to revive the game. By Monday the field will be marked out, and everything will be in readiness for hard work. In the mean time practice will...
...against all comers. To be sure, the men are somewhat out of training, and the graduation of '85 has in a degree disorganized the twelve, yet the number of good players in college is sufficiently large to furnish a strong team, which, by earnest training, may be brought into form sufficiently to represent fittingly the university in the proposed game. To expect the twelve to defeat the visiting team is almost idle, for the Montreal Club has, it is said, the strongest team in America. What we do expect is that the crimson will put into the field a twelve...
...rear. In going to the mile flag the Harvard stroke dropped to 39, 38, and finally to 34, while Columbia hit up the stroke to 36, 37 and 38. At the mile and a half buoy Harvard was eight lengths to the good, and was rowing in splendid form, while Columbia had begun to show a ragged stroke. At the two mile flag Harvard was timed at 11m. 44s., and Columbia at 12m. 47s. Columbia now spurted desperately, rushing the stroke up to 42, but without avail, for the crimson passed the three mile mark in 18m. 40s., with...