Word: harvards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News strongly urges the college Bicycle club to accept the challenge of the Harvard Bicycle club for a road race. As yet no answer has been sent by the club to Harvard's challenge...
DEAR SIRS-I think that the graduate who complains in the CRIMSON of the poor place reserved for coaches in the Yale-Harvard game is all wrong. He says that the coaches should have one side of the field instead of an end. But this would be manifestly unfair. A coach holds about twelve men on an average, but the space taken up by one would accommodate six rows of eight men each. or 48 men. Supposing that twenty coaches-a small number were present, two hundred and forty men would occupy the space which might have held nine hundred...
Yale will play two more games before the Harvard game...
...second half began at 4.50. White took Saxe's place. Wesleyan worked the criss-cross trick to good advantage and made 15 yards. Harvard prevented Slayback from gaining, and on the next down Hall punted. B. Trafford caught the ball on the dead run and made a beautiful gain of twenty yards. On the second down he punted to Hall. McDonald dodged finely and brought the ball back near the middle of the field. Crosby fell on the ball. It was passed to White but Crane tackled him before he got started. The ball went to Wesleyan on a misplay...
When the ball was put in play again Wesleyan made four downs in succession and Harvard took the leather. She could make no gain, however, and Trafford kicked. Hall returned and B. Trafford caught the ball on the run again and advanced twenty yards. This brought the play within a few feet of Wesleyan's goal but Harvard could make no holes in the opposing line and four downs gave the play to Wesleyan. Macdonald ran out from behind the goal around Crosby's end and made fifteen yards. Hall kicked, and White secured the ball. On the second down...