Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contests has played with teams materially weakened, and represented by a large number of substitutes. Besides, the fickleness of her play, as observed by able foot-ball critics, has been her distinguishing characteristic. In the game with Pennsylvania, Saturday, the score of which was 75 to 0, the main point of interest was the number of men disqualified by Mr. Moffat, the referee; there being no less than five, three from Pennsylvania and two from Yale. A few emphatic allusions, made by the captain of the Pennsylvania eleven, to the necessity of bringing along as substitutes the whole university...
...stretch of the imagination to suppose for a moment that some patriotic student has claimed his country's flag as the fair guerdon of a night raid. But we are very loth to think for a moment that such is the case. Indeed, evidences seem to point in much the opposite direction. Not for many years has there been gathered in the city so motley an assemblage as last Monday evening witnessed filling the streets. But that we may not unjustly charge others with that which may be nearer home, we trust for the good name of the university that...
...Pennsylvanian, published by the University of Pennsylvania, offers a gold medal to the man who scores the first point against Harvard on Thanksgiving...
...Princeton on Friday. The rates will be surprisingly cheap. The trip is a pleasant one; the reception the visitors will meet at Princeton will be - as all Princeton receptions are - pleasant; the game, we might also predict, will be a pleasant one - from a Harvard stand point. Everyone knows how much cheering helps an eleven on to victory; everyone knows, too what a tremendous audience Princeton will have to support their team, and what a small, though hearty, delegation of Harvard men New York will find. Everyone who has a few dollars to spare should...
...race the undergraduates caught the water first at the word, and drew ahead about a length, which they managed to keep until the finish. The graduates, however were not satisfied as they were only just getting shaken together, so it was proposed to race back again to the starting point...