Word: matches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pleasures and pains of Hare and Hounds? then listen to the mournful story of Ferdinand Van Rasselas. When Ferdy appeared in front of Matthews, his six feet two of skin and bones clad in a nice new flannel shirt and in new brown knickerbockers and stockings to match, he created quite a sensation. His clean things, in comparison with the rough boating jerseys and dirty football trousers, made him conspicuous. In fact, Ferdy wished he were not quite so conspicuous, for it was n't pleasant to hear whispered remarks about "Freshy's telegraph poles," and "Freshy...
...Advertiser, speaking of the Harvard-Yale Freshman football match, says, "Yale was victorious over Harvard by superior muscle only, for there was no science, or very little of it, displayed by them...
...GENTLEMAN writes to the New York World, to request that the Yale-Princeton football match, which is to be played in Hoboken, the 27th, be played in the morning, as, if he goes to see it in the afternoon, it will interfere with his Thanksgiving dinner...
...learn that there was much surprise felt in New Haven at the tone of the last Advocate in its criticism of the football match. The Yale students, it seems, had no idea that we could complain of our treatment there or could protest against the prize-fighting element of which they make a specialty. Of course, when a person does an ungentlemanly action, and then declares that he did not know it was ungentlemanly, while we pity his ill-breeding, it is useless for us to argue the point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems...
...Football match with Yale occurs to-morrow at New Haven...