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What promised to be a very exciting contest yesterday turned out to be one of the poorest exhibitions of football seen on Soldiers Field this season. Several of the regular 'varsity men had been over-trained and were obliged to rest, so that the team was made up largely of substitutes. In view of this fact, the management had tried to cancel the game, but the Brown men were unwilling to give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football. | 11/16/1894 | See Source »

...been an alarming decrease. Of all the classes now in college, ninety-seven has made the feeblest initial effort to produce a nine. Of course the matter rests entirely with the class. There is no compulsion in the matter. If they are willing to have their record the poorest in many years, if they wish to incur the reputation of being spiritless, they have full power. And yet the rest of the University cannot look on with indifference while they take such a course. Harvard's prospects in baseball have not been so gloomy for years as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/15/1894 | See Source »

...team has played one or two very pretty games and some where there seemed to be absolutely no science whatsoever. At the time of the West Point game the eleven was probably in its poorest condition, but since then the men have made considerable improvement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 11/22/1893 | See Source »

...Poet" by Louis How is one of the poorest things in the number. "Kansas Plantin" is a peculiar story and while being decidedly fanciful, is interesting and pleasing. "An Ethical Compromise" may be termed a story of "College Life" though we hesitate to believe that a Harvard professor could "conscientiously allow" such a matter as the story relates to pass unnoticed. "A True Madonna' by Paul Washburn is the best story of the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 6/2/1893 | See Source »

...first place, the 'varsity batted poorly with the exception of Upton, who made a timely home ran in the eighth inning, and Hovey who made two hits, one for three bases. Outside of that, there were just two hits. Eight men struck out, which is about the poorest record this year. Nearly every ball that was hit went into the air. Brown, on the other hand, made eight hits, all singles, though Wiggin kept them well scattered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball. | 5/16/1893 | See Source »

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