Word: haven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton plays Yale today at New Haven...
...Overseers wish to confine our intercollegiate contests to those with Yale alone; but do they imagine that our teams, lacking practice and lacking spirit, can do much against a well-trained, practiced team from New Haven? It may be the wisest policy for our governing bodies to attempt to antagonize the students, but it is not in accordance with the spirit which has prevailed here in the last two decades, and it is subjecting the welfare of Harvard University to a great and imminent risk...
Voted, That in the opinion of this board contests should take place only in Cambridge, New Haven and such other New England city or town as the committee on athletics may from time to time designate; that university teams alone should be permitted to take part in the intercollegiate contests; that students should be prohibited from taking part in contests with organizations not belonging to the university, except on Saturdays and holidays...
Yale plays Trinity today at New Haven...
...unfortunate accident to one of the riders in the bicycle race-an accident which can be easily averted in the future, and which in this case, happily, is not at all serious. One record was broken, presaging, we hope, victory in the same event at the Mott Haven games. Indeed the result of this meeting was such that it gives good reason to suppose that with the proper amount of care and training the Mott Haven team should bring the cup back to its old resting place, from which it has unwillingly strayed for a short vacation...