Word: pennants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college is very enthusiastic over the splendid work of the foot-ball team, and it is expected that Dartmouth will win the championship pennant...
...games from Williams and Technology, the two teams in the league which were considered her strongest rivals, and it is thought the pennant is almost won. The Tech. men were very confident of winning, but a score of 30-0 against them changed their opinion of our football prowess. Williams was still more confident, but fared scarcely better, being beaten by a score...
...lacrosse management is already busy in bringing out the lacrosse talent of the college. The recently-won championship has created new enthusiasm for this sport, and Harvard will have a struggle to regain the pennant...
This afternoon the Harvard nine goes out to a struggle on whose results depend in part its chances for the championship pennant this year. The nine has done some splendid work since it last encountered the Yale team and has inspired the college at large with confidence of its ability to beat Yale in the contest to-day. Both the fielding and the batting of the nine has improved greatly with its constant practice, and the steady work of the battery in all the games leaves nothing to be asked from that quarter except that it maintain its excellent standard...
...victory over Princeton, and that, too, on her own grounds. The chances for our winning the game on Saturday are fair indeed, and we congratulate the nine on this last step towards the championship. If we succeed in winning the game on Saturday and two games from Yale, the pennant is ours. At present it looks as if nothing but very hard luck could snatch the final victory from us, but still it is not time to be overconfident. Our old caution may sound too trite to be published again, but it is better to err on the right side...