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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tuesday the number of men was not quite as large as on the preceding day but the play was fairly good. Several new men came out, Fargo, Adams and Cabot '88, Harrington '85 and Sawer, L. S. E. Kent '83, formerly a university player of note, who has been travelling in Europe, has reentered the Law School. He came out yesterday for a few minutes and signified his intention of training and trying for the team. The best playing was done by the left wing of the rush line of first team, Adams, end, Simpkins, J. E. Thayer and Homans...
...college tennis tournament this autumn promises to be closer and more interesting than in former years. S. Thorn and Knapp of Yale, J. Clarke, formerly Harvard, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Brinley of Trinity, make a formidable list of players. But, if Harvard has not the powerful incentives to organized team work that some colleges enjoy, she has long since shown her ability to win in anything that is a matter of individual work. With Sears, M. S., and Taylor, '86, we are sure of the tennis championship. Mr. Sears is head and shoulders above any player in this...
...material for an eleven which shall be able in point of size and strength to cope with our opponents. The men, collectively, are the smallest that have ever tried for places on an eleven here. The captain has requested that every large man in college, whether an old player or not, should present himself on the grounds and play, but his appeal seems to have fallen on deaf ears. It is evident that there are plenty of men of the necessary size in college; as yet, however, they have not turned out. This is a strange condition of affairs...
Peace the Princeton base ball player will play on the university team this year...
...will have this year. Our poor success at foot-ball in the past has been explained in various ways, but the principal reason seems to be that the science of the game is better understood at Yale than elsewhere. There the team receives the benefit of an old experienced player who devotes the greater part of his time in the fall to the interest of the football men. The presence of a reliable coach of course relieves the captain of a large part of his responsibility and thus enables him to devote more time to playing and to the care...