Word: game
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difficult to reach a decision of how much should be set aside for the purpose. After various motions had been made and defeated, the class voted to set aside "one hundred dollars to be expended in buying trophies for those members of the team who played in the Yale game and for the manager, and that the balance of the surplus be turned over to the management of the freshman crew, to be used in defraying the expenses of the crew, provided it should row a race with some collegiate crew." The class did well to include the manager among...
...addition to the championship games with Yale and Princeton, practice games have been arranged with Williams for April 27 at Williamstown and May 15 at Cambridge. The nine will take a short trip during the first week in April, playing the New York league team at New York on April 3, and the Brooklyn Athletics on April 5. It is probable also that a game will be played with the Philadelphias during the trip, but the date is not yet settled...
...last number of the Auburn was an article by Walter C. Camp on football. Mr. Camp traces the growth or evolution of the game until the time when Harvard carried out the idea of learning to play under the Rugby rules, and contesting with the Canadian teams which played by those rules. Then followed Harvard's effort to introduce this game in the other colleges, and particularly in Yale. Much opposition was met; but "in 1874 Yale began to yield, and in the following year her delegates met those from Harvard, and, after a stormy session, a combination was effected...
...Athletic Union of the United States, held last Saturday in the Madison Square Garden, N. Y., was, without doubt, in all respects the most successful athletic meeting ever held in this country. Representatives from all the well-known athletic clubs, together with numerous college athletes, took part in the games, and the large number of entries-about 700-made it necessary to hold the preliminary heats in the afternoon from two to six, and the finals from eight till near midnight. A few innovations were made, as lacrosse and base-ball games were played under cover for the first time...
...Princeton football eleven will play an exhibition game with the Crescents of Brooklyn at the Madison Square Garden during the games of the A. A. U. on Jan. 19. The Yale eleven were asked to play the Princeton team, but refused...