Word: newness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first game of the Harvard and Yale series was played at New Haven, November 13, 1875. Harvard had formed a football club three years before, but the Universities could not agree upon a code of rules to govern the contest. Up to this time, Yale's game had consisted solely in kicking, while Harvard's allowed running with the ball, holding and passing. Yale made a concession and played under rules with which she was unfamiliar. As a result she was beaten, and the score, by the old system, was four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. In this game...
Yale lost no games to Harvard from 1878 to 1890. In 1879 there was a draw, and in 1885 intercollegiate football was forbidden at Harvard. In 1888 Harvard was compelled to forfeit the game, since the faculty would not allow the eleven to play in New York, while the Yale team was not allowed to play out of that city...
After the Springfield game athletic relations between the two universities were broken off, and were not resumed again until 1897. In that year a tie game was played at Cambridge, in which neither side scored. Last year Harvard defeated Yale at New Haven by a score of 17-0 in a game in which Harvard proved herself superior to her opponent in every respect...
...dinner in honor of last year's University crews will be held at the American House this evening. The following men will speak: President Eliot, Major Henry L. Higginson, Governor Roosevelt, C. C. Beaman, president of the University Club of New York; Hon. W. H. Moody, Professor Ira N. Hollis, E. C. Storrow, Gen. W. A. Bancroft, B. H. Dibblee '99, and F. L. Higginson '00. Other invited guests are G. S. Mumford, Gen. A. L. Devens, and the members of last years nine, the point winners in the Mott Haven games, and the Freshman crew. The dinner will...
...exterior work on Stafford Little Hall, a new dormitory adjoining Blair Hall, has been completed, and the building will be ready for occupation at the semi-annual room drawings in February. The erection of Dodge Memorial Hall, which, with Murry Hall, will be the home of the Philadelphia Society, the religious organization of the university, has been begun and considerable progress has been made. The building is of Brown stone, designed in the English collegiate Gothic style of the fifteenth century and will cost $50,000. It will be ready...