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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Second half.- Corbin passed to Woodruff, who gained fifteen yards. Gill then gained five yards and a kick gave Princeton the ball on the five-yard line. Cowan kept up his good work and gained ten yards in two runs. Ames described a beautiful parabolic curve from one touch line to the other, but failed to advance. All this time the rain had been falling in sheets and fumbling and slipping were frequent. Price. by the way, failed to turn up in second half, and his brother took his place. Yale finally got the ball on Princeton's ten-yard...
...three-quarters of the work; Ames did very well and Hancock's tackling was noticeably good. For Yale, Corbin, Wallace, Pratt, Woodruff, Graves and Bull did distinctly well; and Gill played his usual brilliant game. Mr. W. A. Brooks as referee, and Mr. T. D. Fiske as umpire, gave complete satisfaction. This is no small praise, for no Yale-Princeton game, for years has been played with such an entire absence of "kicking...
Harmar, Yale, '90, the runner, gave a good exhibition of his powers in that direction on Tuesday afternoon, when he chased a man who had stolen a foot-ball from the field. When the thief was overtaken, there were found in his possession a lady's hand-bag containing $10 and a revolver in addition to the foot-ball...
George Francis Train gave a rather incoherent lecture to a small audience in Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...generosity and interest in his native city by making three more gifts to Cambridge. He offers this time, a site for a high school, a new city hall building and both the site and building for an industrial school for boys. It will be remembered that last spring he gave the city 75.000 feet of land and $75,000 with which to build a public library...