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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...season which has just closed has been one of the most successful in the history of foot ball in Canada. The active interest taken in the game has greatly increased during the past year, many new clubs have sprung up and come into prominence, and scores of new players been developed The same may be said of the interest taken in the game by the general public, or from a spectator's point of view. The dozens which a year or two since made up the audience at a first class match have now become hundreds...
...Hamilton, Ottawa and Kingston, and the college clubs of Toronto, Trinity, and the Kingston Universities. By the usual methods of rounds of tie matches, the championship of the Association and the possession of a handsome trophy, emblematic of the championship is annually decided. This much coveted honor for the past two seasons has fallen to the Toronto club. The majority of this club are also active members of the Argonaut Rowing Club of this city which numbers among its members, as those of your readers aquatically inclined will remember the champion American as well as Canadian amateur four. By this...
Reference has been made to improvement made in the game during the season past. These may be noted as follows: placing two forwards on a line with the scrimmage and playing in the scrimmage with the idea not so much of playing the ball forwards, as sidewards to these unchecked men. This play is a great advantage when adopted by one side only, and could not prove very effective otherwise. Much cannot be said in favor of the change, it leads to loose scrimmaging which means excessive roughness in the game. Another improvement, and one more properly so-called...
...amply repaid by the eloquent and convincing discourse which they heard. It was a presentation of historical evidence which seems to indicate the wisdom of our present tariff policy. There is no better way of arriving at the truth of a theory than by studying its workings in the past, it has given use to the Historical School of Economists. England, the champion of industrial economics, first demands our attention. She was for a long time, in the very early stages of development, a free trade country. She raised wool and sent it abroad to be manufactured. Not until...
...members of the H. U. B. C. do not at present appreciate how much they lose in being deprived of the services of such a friend of boating as Mr. Watson has been. In the past, he and the older boating men of Cambridge have done all in their power to help the younger ones. They have no cause to regret their advice, but if it is to be considered an interference, the members of the H. U. B. C. will hereafter be allowed to paddle their own canoe...