Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enclosed by the new track will be ready for use early in the spring, the want of sufficient space for our sports will be as severely felt then as now. Particularly will this apply to tennis. Many valuable courts have been destroyed by the new athletic grounds and their loss is sorely felt. If the nine is obliged to practice on Jarvis in the spring, the number of courts cannot be greatly increased over the present limited supply and much discontent will be the result. To prevent this, the Tennis Association would do well to see if it cannot procure...
...Yale goal kicker and halfback, was seriously injured. He was thrown in a scrimmage and wrenched and bruised his kneepad in such a manner that he had to be carried from the field. He will probably be unable to play again this season. This is a great loss to Yale as Richards is one of the best goal kickers in the country...
...lacrosse men have been practising steadily for the last fortnight, but have been at a great disadvantage from the loss of many of last year's team, and from the disinclination of many of the new men to walk daily as far as they must to play. The team is to play the Unions of Boston, one of the best twelves in the country, next Saturday, on Jarvis, by way of practice for the Oelrichs tournament at New York the following week. Immediately preceding Saturday's game will occur the throwing competitions, at which we hinted some time since...
...much service if asked immediately are forgotten or of no use if they must be kept a week. There are many men in the course who cannot afford to give to it more time than they do already, especially when there is no compensation offered for the loss of their privilege of asking those immediate questions which are most productive of good...
...thus with mingled feeling that the news of his death has come upon us. We rejoice that he who has departed first from among us has left us the example of an upright life and of an unflinching death. At the same time we feel deep sorrow at our loss and sincere sympathy with his family in their affliction, and it is to give some faint expression of this feeling of sorrow and of sympathy that we have met together...