Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cricket will probably receive a boom in this country next spring. Efforts are being made in England to organize a gentlemen's team of cricketers, similar to the eleven which visited this country in 1885, to play matches in Philadelphia, New York and Canada. Correspondence in regard to arrangements for the visit is now in progress. An eleven from the North of England has also arranged to visit this country next summer...
...meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association, which was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York on Saturday evening, it decided by a vote of 3 to 1 that the play of Corbin, the Yale centre-rush in the Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgving Day, was perfectly proper and in accordance with the rules of the game. The point made by Harvard was that Corbin had picked up the ball and rushed with it before another man had touched it, thereby breaking rule 29, which says that the snapper back...
...Gentlemen: We wish, in the name of the Harvard University Cricket Association, to challenge, through your paper, Yale University to play a match game of cricket next spring, the date and place to be arranged here-after. The challenge will remain open until Feb. 1, 1888. Hoping that we shall soon have a favorable answer, we are yours very truly...
...increase the size of the two institutions and would act unfavorably upon athletic interests elsewhere. However, it seems to be the tendency. For some years the contest in base-ball has narrowed down to our New Haven rivals and ourselves, and the outcome of this season's foot-ball play has placed Princeton further in the background. Yale, we believe, looks upon this as a point gained, and likes to consider Harvard as her only suitable rival. However that may be, it will be interesting to watch the further developments of this question, which rapidly is becoming the principal...
...postponement of the foot-ball games yesterday was to be expected, but, nevertheless, the management should receive praise for their action. "Sand" has its uses, but with the thermometer sunk as low as it was yesterday it would have been folly to have compelled men to play for the glory of their class, while offering them a valuable opportunity never to enjoy that distinction in the future...