Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for the Freshman football team met yesterday on Soldiers Field for the first time. Forty-four men appeared dressed to play. The candidates were divided into five squads, with J. W. Hallcwell, C. D. Daly, E. J. Putnam, J. W. Kendall and S. G. Ellis as squad captains. The men were given light practice in falling on the ball, tackling and getting down the field...
...trip back to the boat house serious difficulties were met with from the high sea that was running in the river. Fortunately a washboard had been put on the shell a few days before; but, as it was, the crew narrowly escaped swamping...
...religious societies and the University preachers, but also serve as a sort of social centre for the University, performing in fact many of the functions of a University club. For several reasons this original plan has had to be greatly modified. Almost at the outset the committee met with unexpected difficulty in the matter of funds on account of the general bad times of the last few years. More recently the University Club project has rendered it inadvisable to attempt for the Brooks House much of the social work originally intended...
...numbers and encouraged their teams with spirited cheering. At the other game there were very few Seniors and scarcely any Juniors. It seems, too, that if more interest in the games existed among the members of the two upper classes, the teams would be far better than those which met on Soldiers Field yesterday. Ninety-eight's showing was especially discreditable, and as there are a number of good ball players in the class who might improve the nine, it seems unfortunate that such an exhibition should have to go as a representative...
...last year's football team met in 9 Hollis last night to decide on a hat-band. The ribbon chosen is to be the same width as the baseball ribbon, and is to consist of a narrow black stripe in the middle, with narrow crimson stripes on each side of it, and broader black stripes outside of all. Henceforth all men who have won football H's will be entitled to wear this ribbon...