Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which were predicted by the action of the faculty in forbidding the base-ball men to practice with professional teams, and there is little indicatian that we ever shall see them. Under the present prohibition, we lose the manifest good which would result from contesting with our superiors, and gain nothing in return. We defeat the duffers at Marblehead twenty runs to two, and find in our games with Yale that there is danger of a similar score-only reversed. Agitation may effect something in this matter; silence surely cannot...
...clear and forcible language, Mr. Mill's conclusions and the reasoning upon which they are based, together with the various modifications found necessary in recent years. These principles will be fixed in their minds by a careful study of the practical portion, Part II, and furthermore, they will gain a knowledge of business and of public questions that every man should have. To those who do not take Political Economy but who wish to have some knowledge of it we would say that nowhere else can any find the essential principles so well stated or condensed into so small...
...ball, and, in trying to run, ran outside the fair line. Another rush was made by Porter and Sears followed him, but ran outside. The ball was now taken in five yards to a down. Porter and Wood made good rushes and Boyden advanced five yards. Porter again gained five yards, but the ball remained in the middle of the field and was surrendered to Yale on four downs. Graves now tried to rush. The ball was fumbled by Yale, and Cumnock dropped out. Rushes by Butler, Boyden and Porter advanced the ball fifteen yards, but it was carried outside...
Harvard eighty-eight's action in passing a resolution deeming it inadvisable to row Columbia before the Yale Harvard race seems to show an element of weakness. What are the reasons that can be advanced for such action? First it uses up the crew. Second, that Yale may gain points from the race. As to the first of these reasons it can only be said that a crew in proper training and condition should be able to row races on consecutive days if necessary, let alone an interval of several days. As to the second, what points might be gained...
...goal posts. Cumnock missed him and he carried the ball out. Bancroft was disqualified and Alexander was put into his place. Woodman made a short run, as did Porter and Boyden. Saxe did some good blocking off. On four downs Harvard lost the ball, but Ames did not gain ground. Harvard had the ball again. Porter and Saxe ran to Princeton's 10-yard line. Porter went through the line and made a touchdown, but the umpire claimed that there was holding in our line, and did not allow the point. The ball went to Princeton again on four downs...