Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...victors from the field on their shoulders. On arriving at the gymnasium, rousing cheers were given for the eleven and for the individual players, while the Yale team was down stairs in the sparring room changing their apparel. At half past seven about one half of the class met in the square near Beck. The torches lately used in the 250th anniversary parade, were made to do duty a second time, and with a band of horn-blowers and fire-cracker throwers the victorious class marched through Harvard Street to the yard. Roman candles, colored fire, rockets and shouting, mingled...
Last Saturday evening the convention appointed to make a final decision regarding the Yale-Princeton game met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. The following delegates were present: Princeton, Captain Savage, C. Bird, and H. Hodge; Yale, Captain Corwin, Frank G. Peters and Walter C. Camp ex-captains of the eleven; Harvard, Captain Brooks, E. G. Kent and ex-captain Appleton; Wesleyan, Messrs. Stevens and Beattie; University of Pennsylvania, Messrs. Young and Posey. Mr. Savage presided. As soon as he had taken the chair, Captain Corwin of Yale moved that the championship for this year be awarded...
...bill of fare at Memorial Hall, last evening was very elaborate and met with the hearty approval of a considerable number of diners...
Fourth, that Princeton has the right to expect Yale to meet the same conditions this year as Princeton met last year, as to both grounds and place...
Yesterday morning a harlequin scrub eleven met in fierce contest the champion eleven of Memorial table No. 3, and with difficulty overthrew them. Brilliant play, rapid running, rough tackling and generous gore distinguished the game throughout. Yale's tactics were closely followed, and the disabled strewed the field. Both teams were from '87. Time was called at half past eleven. In the first wild enthusiasm, G. W. Foster kicked a goal from the field, and Loud scored a touchdown. The Flubdubs, green with envy, secured in the second half two touchdowns by Russell and Mead, and a goal from...