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...Princetonian remarks that since the Yale, Harvard and Princeton lacrosse teams have won three games each, the championship is at present undecided. We should suppose that, in accordance with the action of the last convention, at the instance of the Princeton delegates, the championship in case of a tie would remain with Harvard as holding over from former years. There is nothing definite bearing upon such a case to be found in the rules, and the next convention will doubtless decide the question impartially, if it should come up. At all events, Harvard will consider, with propriety, that she holds...
...Princetonian also says that if the protested Harvard - Yale game be declared void, there will be a tie between Harvard and Princeton, each having won three games. Therefore, Princeton and Harvard would have to play off the championship. The writer seems to have forgotten that, in that case, Harvard would have won three games and one undecided, and that Princeton would have won three and lost one to the very team with which she would dispute the championship. It would evidently be absurd for an unbeaten college to share the championship with her defeated rival. It would also...
...Yale can make thirteen goals off Columbia at foot-ball in one and a half hours, and Princeton can make ten goals off her at lacrosse in three-quarters of an hour, should Columbia really "seriously cosider the forming of a university nine to enter the Inter-Collegiate Association?" - [Princetonian...
...Boston, as trainer. This gentlemen is well known as an oarsman, having been, at one time, the fastest man in a two mile race in the world. His reputation as a trainer has also been established, having been connected in this capacity with Harvard a few years since. - [Princetonian...
...nine is not a typical one for Yale. The men are light and youthful, more like an Amherst nine, if we may credit our informants. Unlike the usual Yale nine, the men step to the bat as if expecting to be hit rather than wanting to make a hit. - [Princetonian...