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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the freshman football team, together with the substitutes and coaches, will leave Cambridge for Philadelphia, where they will play a game tomorrow with the freshman eleven of the University of Pennsylvania. The game will be played at Franklin Park in Philadelphia. The men are all in first rate condition, and will doubtless put up a strong game against their opponents. The Pennsylvania freshman team is a very strong one, for it takes the place of the 'varsity scrub teams of Princeton and Yale. For practice this team lines up each afternoon against the 'varsity eleven of the University...
...Michigan team is a very strong one. It has played several good teams this year and has not been scored against. The men are all in first rate condition and confident of victory...
Critics may object, and do object, that athletic prowess is unduly exalted, and that it involves distortion of facts to rate the best football player, or best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the college world to recognize in the highest degree anything which redounds to the credit of the college. Let a student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player...
...round trip rate by rail via Springfield will be $9.00 for 50 men, $8.50 for 100 men, and $8.00 for 150 men. Men will be required to leave on the 11 o'clock train Friday night and return on the 11 o'clock train Saturday night. If enough men signify their desire to return at 11 o'clock Sunday night, another excursion will be made up. In order to secure advantageous arrangements it is absolutely necessary that the management should have some idea of the number of men who will go to Princeton...
...round trip rate by rail via Springfield will be $9.00 for 50 men, $8.50 for 100 men, and $8.00 for 150 men. Men will be required to leave on the 11 o'clock train Friday night and return on the 11 o'clock train Saturday night. If enough men signify their desire to return at 11 o'clock Sunday night, another excursion will be made up. In order to secure advantageous arrangements it is absolutely necessary that the management should have some idea of the number of men who will go to Princeton...