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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...championship contest for scrub elevens was played yesterday afternoon on Jarvis between the Bacterias and the CRIMSON. The struggle was the most terrific ever played between scrub elevens. The superior weight of the Bacterias proved no match for the great celerity and close team play of the CRIMSON, for the former team played an up-hill game throughout until the last three seconds when the score was tied amid the wildest enthusiasm of the Bacteriani. At the close of the first half the score stood 8 to 0. in favor of the CRIMSON. The half was marked by long rushes...
...York Sun of Sunday contained an epic poem on the Yale-Princeton slugging match on Thanksgiving...
...time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken lantern into the locomotive caboose and cry "hold her!" The engineer heard the cry and stopped the engine just before the slide. In applying the anecdote Mr. Moody said with great earnest...
...Match B. 1st, W. Austin, '87, 17; 2nd, F. S. Mead...
...Match C. 1st, W. Austin, '87, 17; 2nd, Fredericson...