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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college. The students, therefore, want to be solidly behind the Committee and in a position to support it intelligently. Doubtless there are many men in college who have found themselves called upon to defend the action of the Athletic Committee on some matter but who have been forced to keep silent because they had no accurate knowledge of the arguments which had influenced the committee to the action in question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1891 | See Source »

Harvard's Firm Srand.Then Harvard played hard and Yale bucked the line in vain. McClung took the ball back twenty yards to keep it for Yale; but they lost it on four downs. Trafford punted. Bliss kicked in return, but Newell broke through and stopped it, getting the ball on Yale's 45-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE VICTORIOUS. | 11/23/1891 | See Source »

...turtle-back wedge which '95 used for the first time yesterday in a game was inefficient as a general thing, the ends and backs not having learned to keep well bunched as they strike the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '95, 18; Cambridge Manual, 12. | 11/21/1891 | See Source »

Unless permits were issued, students could do one of two things. They could hire the occupants of the place to keep it all night at $5 and upward; or they could pay $2.50 and upwards for the place, and stay there all night themselves. They were on the same terms with any ticket speculator who cared to do the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/19/1891 | See Source »

This, it was said, was to keep the tickets out of the hands of speculators. Thus the students at recitation had no chance whatever of securing tickets. It had been announced that not more than five tickets would be sold to any one student, as a means to prevent speculation, and the students all agreed that this was an excellent idea. But when the sale began men who were friends of the manager found no difficulty in buying as many as twenty-five tickets, and one junior bought one hundred and sixty-one. The result was that the tickets were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sale of Seats at Yale. | 11/18/1891 | See Source »

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