Word: retain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year by year, till in '87 five first prizes were won by Yale men at Mott Haven, and at last the cherished cup became Yale's. Since that time the interest has not been allowed to lag for a moment, and the Athletic Association have spared no efforts to retain the distinction so dearly won. The games last fall were among the most interesting ever held and considerable new material was developed. The chief hope rests in new material, although there are several of last year's winners still in college. The new men are carefully trained and are given...
...paper is a college paper and should retain its character as such, and not aim to be a cheap copy of a paper that has no more originality or excellence than is found in Life...
...extent on the foot-ball field. In spite of this fact, she has this season sent out a team that put Yale, who in the last six years had lost but a single game and that by a score of six to five, to her very sharpest effort to retain her supremacy. And it may be assumed that Harvard has come back to the foot-ball grounds to stay, and that means an even contest, with victory to the team that has been best trained and best coached. In other branches of athletics the two universities have almost held first...
...Speer, '89, Church, '88. Cowan, '88, George, '89, Janeway, '90, Irvine, '88, and Bickham, '90, rushers. Hancock, Speer and Church were substitutes last year. while Janeway and Bickham are comparatively new men. They both played on their class team last year, however, and will make good men if they retain their places on the team. The first game of the season last Saturday with Lafayette was quite a disappointment to the college, Lafayette holding the score down below fifty...
...remembered by those who witnessed the game last year, had a very strong team, and it was only by the hardest work that our team prevented it from carrying away the championship. This year the contest will be even more doubtful, both because Princeton, our most formidable opponent, will retain most of her old team, and because we have lost several of our best players. Of last year's team there still remain, Davidson, '88; Fowle, '88; Blake, '88; Griffing, '89; Harding, '89, and Morton...