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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Efforts will be made to obtain a suitable amateur coach for the nine for the rest of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/17/1884 | See Source »

...both freshmen. First bout. The men were very evenly matched, but seemed to lack sufficient strength to throw squarely after obtaining a hold. Several minutes were consumed in manoeuvering and falls on the face. The bout was so protracted that several times the contestants were compelled to rest and get their wind. Once both were thrown together, and came down flat like a pair of turtles. Finally they locked, and Hughes, with a quick jerk, threw Coolidge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. | 3/17/1884 | See Source »

...more than any exclusive and feverish desire to win games. This every such man we believe individually feels. College teams often seem to direct their energies in another way. But so long as the benefit of the individual is secured it does not much matter (comparatively) as to the rest. It is true many men do not engage in athletic sports. This however is not to be mended by reducing such sports to a more simple state of development. The calculus is not to be studied until after a considerable training in more elementary branches of mathematics. A man cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/14/1884 | See Source »

...they drove this and an additional corps through Gettysburg, and at night the Federal troops occupied a strong position called Cemetery Ridge, south of the town. Shaped like a fish hook, this ridge was ended by two knolls, Culps on the right and Round Top on the left. The rest of the army was hurried up during the night and at dawn was stretched from Culps almost to Round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GETTYSBURG. | 3/12/1884 | See Source »

...with every sort of gaming company." It is such words as these, we believe, that do more injury to college athletics than any other statements. It is well known in the college world that the morals and manners of the athletic men are much better than those of the rest of the men. Healthful and judicious fraining forbids them to indulge in vices, smoking and drinking, etc., that are too common among all students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 3/10/1884 | See Source »

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