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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...than the team last year. There has been a great lack of heavy men and fast backs. The men have shown little ability to run up big scores against the teams they have already played. There are five new men in the make-up of the eleven, and the old men are not playing in the same positions as formerly...
...that the date of the Harvard game is drawing near, vigorous preparations are being made at Princeton. Many of the old players have returned to coach the team. In addition to J. B. Fine, Arthur L. Wheeler and John Poe, the regular coaches in charge of the men, Brown, end rush of last year's eleven Frank Morse, former half back, Janeway who played guard on the championship '89 team, and Alexander Moffat '84, have just gone to Princeton from New York...
...basement of the old wing of the Gymnasium has been cleared and the bowling alleys renovated. A large number of men are at work on the new wing and it is expected to be completed by the twentieth of November...
Captain Thorne of the Yale football eleven said yesterday that at the request of the B. A. A. eleven, Yale had agreed to allow that club to play under the Harvard rules next Saturday. This will be the first game of the season at New Haven under the old mass play rules and the first for Yale to play against a heavy team under these rules. The Boston team is the strongest eleven Yale has faced this year...
...present year will probably mark the institution of a new custom and the revival of one of our old ones which was thought to have died out several years ago. The new custom is the wearing of the academic cap and gown by the seniors on Sundays during the whole year and not merely for a few weeks preceding commencement. The other is one of our most time-honored customs. Formerly each year in the fall occurred the freshman-sophomore "cane spree." This was held some moonlight night on the grass in front of Witherspoon Hall. Three men from each...