Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...night of a big game wearing college colors. For the past two years we have been given a chance to read long accounts of the ingenious schemes by which proprietors of metropolitan theatres and music halls have proposed to "protect" themselves from college boys. And this year, as a grand climax, the fact has been telegraphed all over the country that the last great game this year was played under at east nominal police surveillance...
...sure that every upper-class man shared the pride and joy which the freshmen felt in their victory over Yale. It was a grand game from start to finish, stubbornly contested by each side, yet with never a semblance of rough play. It was the kind of football any one must take pleasure in watching, - the kind that it is perfectly possible for any two elevens to play. Messrs. Forbes, Bancroft and Crane, who have directed the training of the eleven, have reason to feel well satisfied with their work. To them and to the team and its substitutes...
...York. The faculty have long believed that the contests in New York are demoralizing and they are likely to try to induce the alumni to consent to all future games taking place in New Haven, Cambridge, Princeton, or possibly Springfield. This would involve the erection of large grand stands at these places, but that item is necessary at Springfield now and the element of rowdyism would, the faculty think, then be avoided...
...splendid one for football. The four large grand-stands were completely filled and several hundred people who were unable to get seats were crowded around the low fence that surrounded the field, when at two o'clock the Pennsylvania team and shortly afterward the Harvard team ran on to the field. Wild bursts of applause rose from both sides of the field and flags of crimson and red and blue were waved gaily...
...clock the four grand stands were completely filled, and hundreds were standing around the low fence that surrounded the field. The scene was brilliant with the colors of the two colleges. The betting just before the game began was five to four in favor of Pennsylvania...