Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mature years-and perhaps gray hair-of our sapient friend, I cannot help thinking that he does not know what he is talking about. He says that the players have been "constantly changed about during the past fortnight," and that, when he was asked "who were going to play against Princeton on Saturday," he had to guess, and "probably guessed wrong." Now, the first assertion is a direct misstatement of the real facts of the case, as any one knows who has been out on Jarvis during the last two weeks. And his second assertion we could all have taken...
...Yale game is to be played in New York on Thanksgiving Day, and Harvard students without exception should give thanks. The proximity which we bear to Boston has alienated Harvard from New York so much that added to our inferiority in foot-ball this University does not figure much in the thoughts of the people at that city. We trust that the old rule of having the two teams highest in rank play in New York will hold good this year, that is as far as we are concerned...
PIERIAN SODALITY.- Rehearsal to-night (Tuesday) at 7 o'clock. All who expect to play in the Boston concert must be present...
...supporters. The injury to Captain Beecher, coming as it does alomst on the eve of the contest with the men from Jersey, is a very critical one, and if it does not deprive Yale of the championship it will at least injure the chances greatly. Beecher cannot play for a week at least, and even if he recovers sufficiently to play in the game with Princeton on the 19th, he will be under the double disadvantage of a lack of practice and a very tender leg. Beecher is the only man in college who is a first-class quarter-back...
...rush line is all that will save Yale from certain defeat. There are several weak spots in it now, but good coaching ought to remedy these within the next nine days. Most of the men in the rush line are really phenomenal players, but still they cannot play the whole game any more than a crack battery can win a championship for a poor base ball nine. Pratt and Wallace are to be the end rushers. The former was substitute in the '87 crew, and the latter has made a great reputation during the last two seasons by demonstrating that...