Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Only a few freshmen have yet signed to accompany their team to Andover to-day. The freshmen ought to know by this time that it is their duty to support the team well if they expect them to win. At least a hundred men ought to accompany the team...
...undergraduate at present, suffice it to say that last Saturday afternoon saw their foot-ball teams leave on one train to play in divers places. Three victories were scored: the 'varsity beat University of Pennsylvania, 59 to 9, the sophomores made 15 points to Chester's 0, and the freshmen won from the Lafayette freshmen by 18 to 0. The 'varsity has played four games and in no two of them have the same team played. The second Stevens game was especially disastrous, both end-rushers and the captain being compelled to withgo practice for over a week. Last Saturday...
...cane-spree, an institution peculiarly Princeton's own, is a thing of the past and the verdant freshman now rejoiceth much. Special regulations were adopted this year to the effect that no foot-ball men should be allowed to spree. The freshmen, by superior coaching, took the first two canes, the light-weight and the middle-weight. The struggle for the heavy-weight cane was a stubborn contest; after working hard for one hour and forty minutes, neither man was able to wrest it from his opponent and the cane was divided, the freshmen thus getting 2 1-2 canes...
...Yale News complains bitterly of the lack of enthusiasm displayed by the freshmen with regard to foot-ball, and says that "unless immediate steps are taken to remedy matters, this class will be as unsuccessful in foot-ball as '89 was in base-ball...
...every one knows, it is a great blessing to a college to have a freshmen foot-ball eleven, and it is an exceeding pleasure to see them wander round in their curious costumes looking like dainty demons; but did it ever occur to the members of the freshman eleven that they had any duties beyond those of looking handsome and keeping their uniforms clean? Did it ever occur to them that both the class and the college expect them to do some work in return for the fun they get from being on the team? The only reason for there...