Word: ill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eight's representatives, In the Andover men our team will find worthy rivals, for the eleven from that academy has not been beaten by a Harvard freshman team since the fall of 1881, Last year, and the year before, our teams returned with doleful tales of defeat, attributing their ill success to one cause or another, and making vigorous complaints about playing in a "brick-yard," the somewhat harsh tile they gave to the Andover foot ball field. From this it will be seen that Eighty-Eight has no easy task before her, and that, while only the sharpest...
...university. The call is a most timely one, for none of the methods which have been tried hitherto have proved successful. The old system, by which a man "pre-empted" a court, and held possession of it during his entire course at college, resulted in stirring up nothing but ill feeling ; an effect far from beneficial to the best interests of the game. This state of affairs was changed somewhat when the present plan of assignment was adopted, but the complaints which are constantly being received show too plainly that the desired end has not been reached. Some fruiting blows...
Last year's ill success has caused an investigation of the present system of Athletics at Princeton. An undergraduate committee has been appointed to confer with the Faculty and consider the advisability of adopting some features of the Yale system...
...should, therefore, suggest that a mass meeting be held, and a vote taken to see which procession the majority favored, with the understanding that the minority should march with the majority, Thus, I think, with no ill feeling the old custom and fun would be preserved...
Terry of the Yale foot ball team has been ill, but is expected to be able to play soon...