Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There was one table almost vacant. I selected that, for I was not pleased with the appearance of the gentlemen at the others. It was very pleasant, - so quiet, - such a subdued light. "Bless me," said I, "this is not so dull a place after all." And I was soon deep in the "Inferno...
...game between Princeton and Harvard took place on the St. George Cricket Grounds on Friday, November 3. The weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...
...Princeton playing a stronger game, and our team seemingly becoming slack in their work. At last, Cutts and Dodge of the Princeton team got the ball, and by some capital running and passing, Cutts carried it directly behind our goal. It was brought out, and Cutts, by a fine place-kick, lifted it over the crossbar, thus securing the first and only goal for Princeton...
...field, but were stopped by our half-tends, and soon Holmes made a fine rush, and got a touch-down. Out came the ball, and after a lively scrimmage, the best one thus far, Cushing, '79, got the ball behind the line, and obtained a goal from a place-kick. We had now got two goals and five touch-downs within fifteen minutes...
...Harvard obtained six goals and Columbia nothing. Brower, Conover, Hammond, McCosh, and Train did the best work for Columbia; and Bacon, Cushing, Harrington, Holmes, Littauer, and Thayer for Harvard. Our team was the same as that in the Princeton game, with the exception of Sheldon, '79, who took the place of Blanchard, M. S. The Columbia team was as follows...