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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place we look back upon our record and what do we find? Not very much, it is true, but of such a kind that we can at least be thankful that our record is no larger. Five games have been played and of these two have been lost, or in other words forty per cent, of the games have been defeats. There was a time so many years ago when the college confidently awaited the result of intercollegiate foot ball games. A defeat was a surprise. Within the last few years, however, a defeat at the hands of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/5/1884 | See Source »

...exchange says that the rush line of the Dartmouth eleven was larger than the Yale rushers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

...reported that a company is to be formed from some of the larger private schools in Boston, such as Hopkinson's and Noble's to march in the procession tomorrow night. Their uniform is to be a white gown, with a tall "plug" hat in imitation of the collegians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/29/1884 | See Source »

...Charles Follen, a German refugee, was its director. He was also professor in German in the college. He met an untimely death by fire in 1840. After 1840 the use of the Delta as a gymnasium was discontinued and gave away to its occupation by votaries of the larger college sports. In 1864, October 12, the "University Base Ball Club" was formed. We are informed that "in the spring of 1863 the Cambridge City Government granted the use of part of the common near the Washington Elm for practice ground" and that "this was used until the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Delta. | 10/28/1884 | See Source »

...subject of college athletics has, within the past year, attracted to itself unusual attention. Among several of the older and larger colleges and universities, the question has arisen and been earnestly discussed, whether the time has not now come for the adoption of some uniform regulations that shall control the contests so frequently recurring between the athletic clubs of the different colleges. One of these games-foot-ball-it is charged, has degenerated into methods bordering on the barbarous and brutal, while others have engrossed so much of the attention of the players as seriously to interfere with the higher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Robinson's Views on Athletics. | 10/15/1884 | See Source »

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