Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following the admirable precedent set by ninety. They have now made an excellent showing in their first appearance in inter-collegiate contest, and it is to be hoped that this success will only stimulate the class to add two more victories in the spring and thus win an unrivalled record. Too much praise cannot be given to the team for their splendid work Saturday. The game was won in spite of the odds which Harvard had to face. It was played at New Haven, where there is every facility for rattling a team, and the cheering of the plucky little...
...students of the first year at the University of Pennsylvania number twenty five, the largest class on record...
...Byrd Page, the champion running high jumper, is going to stop record-breaking after he makes two more attempts. He is attending the University of Pennsylvania and devoting himself to the study of electricity...
...this notable record, so gratifying to Yale, I think two, besides other reasons, can be given. First, the influences and generalship of Walter Camp, deservedly called the father of the American Rugby game, has been most potent. When Yale suffered that first defeat he was playing the old-fashioned game in the Hopkins Grammar School team of this city; but, entering college in the following autumn, he shared in the first of many victories in November, 1876. Since that time his efforts and wise counsel have always been at the service of the team. When he was in college...
...accounts of a prize fight, an indignant paragraph on the "barbarism" and "run-a-muck culture" of the Harvard-Princeton game. It declares: "The fierce tumult of young passins, the battered features, the contused limbs, the broken bones, the sprains and welts, and gashes, and bloodstains that made the record of last Saturday's football contest over at Cambridge are enough to fill the thoughts of one who reads them with mingled horror and disgust." Doubtless it would be enough if such a record ever existed outside the imagination of a sensational reporter...