Word: playing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Codman then asks several questions about the alleged brutality of Princeton's play, with many unjust comments on Harvard's attitude...
...blue, the sun shone, the Harvard cannon boomed and everything was lovely-everybody was happy and cried, "The finest game of foot ball ever seen!" The second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand a rough game of give-and-take longer. Was this Princeton's fault? Then, too, there...
...Cambridge. And yet, I fear, only because there is no such disparity in the score, there is mutually admiration and good feeling between Harvard and Yale. "Those of us who were in college when Princeton was the friend and Yale the enemy owe to Princeton our efforts for fair play and fair consideration, and I know that numbers of Harvard men are with me in condemning the action of the Harvard mass meeting as hasty and premature. Let us wait till the evidence is all in and sifted before casting off an old friend and falling into the arms...
...five yard line. Yale gained slightly but lost the ball on four downs. Trafford kicked and Hallowell secured the ball. Lee dropped the ball but again Yale made four downs without gaining. Saxe gained three yards, Lee rushed six yards and passed to Cumnock, who had pluckily continued to play after hurting his leg, and now gained fifteen yards. After four downs with a total gain of fifteen yards B. Trafford kicked. McBride returned and B. Traford punted again. Gill made another grand rush and was only stopped at Harvard's ten yard line by Hallowell's beautiful tackle. McClung...
CHESS TOURNAMENT.- Play will begin tonight at 7 o'clock sharp in the old Hasty Pudding building on Holmes field. Any contestant unable to be present must leave previous notice at 35 Matthews. All other regulations in the tournament will be announced at the meeting tonight...