Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match for the the regular team. They are conscientious, hard-working fellows, who are doing their best for the sake of their class, but they cannot give their team the needed practice. Any eleven, to do good work, must practice against a team which will not only play hard, but will score occasionally. Such practice it is the duty of the other classes to give. Men who have the welfare of the college at heart, should come out and play against the freshmen. It is to be regretted that the class games had to be given up as they would...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It may not be out of the way to suggest through your paper that the upper classmen come out afternoons and play the freshman eleven. There are many foot-ball players in college whose services are not sought by the second 'Varsity who would render great service to '91 if they would take the trouble to come out for three-quarters of an hour every day. The freshman second eleven is made up of very light men who are not able to give their team the practice it needs. There is no reason...
PIERIAN SODALITY.- Rehearsal this evening in Roberts' Hall. Woods and brass at 7 o'clock; full orchestra at 7.30. All who wish to play in the concert must be present...
...Mass., yesterday. Ex-Captain Moffatt, of the Princetons and Hugh Oliphant, a graduate of the college, speak for their fellow graduates, and contend that Cowan is one of the fairest players who ever kicked a ball. He is undoubtedly the strongest man of the team, and his presence and playing always inspire the other players with vim and courage. When he was ordered to step aside and make room for another the Princeton boys lost courage and could not play with the usual skill and confidence. Cowan was ruled out for "foul tackling," and it is insisted...
Tangible evidence of Harvard's capacity to succeed, if she only takes the trouble, has been afforded. At the opening of the term we mentioned the well-worn saying, "Oh! they don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard!" and joined our entreaties to those of the college that this trite remark might become as pathetic in its application as that satire, "Yale men say." Our hopes have been fulfilled, and Harvard has taken its place among the first of the contestants in the foot-ball arena...