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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...From present indications, Harvard will have one of the best freshman nines she has ever had.- Yale News...
...Just at present the Association game as played on the other side is under-going a boom in and around Boston. Not long ago two star players, Priest and Westwood, arrived here from England, and were much disappointed at finding that foot-ball as they know it was almost unknown here. They were professional players in England, and on settling here they conceived the scheme of instructing twenty-two athletes in the fine points of the game and forming two elevens to play matches. No sooner had they started in to develop the game than they found that there...
...Three of these sports, namely foot-ball, base-ball and rowing, are liable to abuses which do not attach to the sports themselves so much as to their accompaniments under the present system of intercollegiate competitions. These abuses are extravagant expenditure by and for the ball players and the crews, the interruption of college work which exaggerated interest in the frequent ball matches causes, betting, trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory, and the hysterical demonstrations of the college public over successful games. These follies can best be kept in check-they cannot be eradicated-by reducing...
...four class crews are now rowing quite steadily and have been at work about three weeks. There are at present some sixty candidates. This number will gradually diminish as the men are sifted out, and in the course of two or three weeks some definite decision can be reached as to the relative merits of the crews. At present they are in a rather crude state and have not even learned the whole stroke. Most of the crews are made up largely of new men, as the old members are either at present with the 'Varsity or have...
Immediately after the Christmas recess, Captain Hale summoned candidates for the senior crew, and some fifteen men presented themselves. There are no old men among them, and the prospect for a crew is not at present encouraging. The scheme of work of the candidates is the following: At quarter after four the men meet and use the chest-weights for fifteen or twenty minutes. At half-past four they repair to the rowing room, where they are busy until five o'clock. At five they take a fast run of a mile out-of-doors, and this ends their work...