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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match B of the present series of matches of the Shooting Club, contestants will be handicapped by distance according to their records. Those who have never shot on the grounds before will receive a big handicap...
...Yale eleven was present at the Princeton-Wesleyan game last Tuesday...
About twenty-five hundred people were present at the Princeton-Wesleyan game...
...great revolution in football occurred in 1880 when the present Rugby game was introduced and the players reduced to eleven on each side. Since that change, football has taken the foremost place in college sports and is now the most popular and scientific game played. Some years afterwards the "blocking" system of play was introduced by Princeton. The championship was won by Yale for several years, Princeton following closely. In 1884 the contest between Yale and Princeton was a draw and the championship was not awarded. Princeton won in 1885 by a remarkable run of Lamar's, which turned...
...three questions to be submitted at he Harvard Union this evening are: Resolved, That the President of the United States should be elected directly by a majority vote of the people. Resolved, That political campaigns, as at present conducted, are demoralizing. Resolved, That Canada should be annexed to the United States...