Word: game
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...general indignation excited by the mismanagement in distributing seats for the Yale game has brought to light some points in the existing system of giving out tickets which I should like to call attention to in your columns if I may have space. The management has evidently considered that men who work or sweat for Harvard are entitled to receive favors: for that they are doing more than giving football players good seats for their families or intimate friends is painfully plain to all of us. But in acting up to this belief the management has either discriminated most unfairly...
...seems to me that this whole system which has borne such bad fruits this year is wrong. A man who plays in a game ought to have tickets enough for the people whom he wishes to have come to see him play. But surely this is all. Harvard undergraduate organizations are not commercial in spirit, nor are they like those in a political ward. The men who deserve favors at the hands of the College are those who would be the last to demand them, especially if they knew them to be granted at the cost of most...
...Stillman each scored in the first half, and then Stillman, with thirty seconds to play in the second half, ran seventy yards for a touchdown, on a fake kick. Groton was severely handicapped by an injury to Thayer, captain and quarter-back, in the first part of the game. The Freshmen played well, especially on the defensive. Captain Baldwin was again laid up. Stillman punted higher and better than usual...
Derby, right halfback, is handicapped by an injury, but plays a spirited game. He runs too high and is weak in backing up the line on the defense. He is improving rapidly, however, and should make a good...
...demand for seats at the Yale game has been so great that there are now no $2.00 seats left on the sides of the field, the applications from old players, coaches and members of the 'Varsity team, and the applications from season ticket holders having used up all except those reserved for Yale. Graduates who apply for seats will save the management a great deal of inconvenience in returning money by asking for $1.50 seats instead of $2.00. No applications from graduates can be filled from $2.00 seats...