Word: returns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the faculty in forbidding the base-ball men to practice with professional teams, and there is little indicatian that we ever shall see them. Under the present prohibition, we lose the manifest good which would result from contesting with our superiors, and gain nothing in return. We defeat the duffers at Marblehead twenty runs to two, and find in our games with Yale that there is danger of a similar score-only reversed. Agitation may effect something in this matter; silence surely cannot...
...contest may be modified or even abandoned. Foot-ball may be so qualified that in no possible event can personal in jury to an opponent be made an advantage. It may even be decided that the boat races are on the whole too expensive-offering no opportunity for pecuniary return from the spectators-and too exacting of the crew, by their over-long course of training, and by excluding them from the festivities and graduation events of commencement week, and too certain to be of a purely processional character, to justify their continuance. They were the pioneer contests...
...freshmen, but by the enthusiasm of graduates and the intense interest which the public take in the affairs. Take the recent game between the two leading foot-ball teams. The New York papers say that the polo grounds never held so many or so wildly enthusiastic spectators; the return of the victors through the avenue on a coach called out the flutter of banners and choruses of cheers from the windows and balconies and pavements, and the newspaper press sent out a half dozen extras to announce the result. And when we consider the character of the attendants upon...
...ticket agent in the Grand Central station in New York is said to have remarked in reply to the return trip that the company seriously thought of raising the rates in view of the fact that Harvard had been defeated...
...until he had reached Yale's twenty-yard line. Yale secured the ball and Bull kicked it out to Sears who caught it, but was downed in the middle of the field. Sears, Boyden and Porter now made short rushes. The ball was punted over to Yale but Bull returned it, and Woodman and Boyden gained some ground by rushed, in which Sears took part. At this point, Cumnock was disqualified and Appleton took his place. Boyden now made the finest run of the game, but on the next down Harvard fumbled and Yale got possession of the bail. Bull...