Word: ribboners
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...these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried a crush hat. The two sides were distinguished by a bit of ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue; the Harvard men, pale pink, crimson having been discarded long before as being too loud. The ball used was perfectly round, about half the size of a Rugby, and covered with velvet of delicate...
Yale's fall athletic meeting was held on Saturday. The events were well contested, but no records were broken. '89 won the tug-of-war, pulling the ribbon from '88 by five inches...
...degrees. Had the rope been less stiff and more manageable, he would have been pulled off the cleats; but before another heave was taken by Easton, Lafayette had let out over a foot of rope and their anchor settled back on his cleat. Time was called with the ribbon 18 inches on our side of the centre...
...play on the lacrosse team against Princeton. The tug was for three minutes on cleats, and the drop was won by the university, who after a minute had a good six inches of rope on their side. Balch, '88 attempted by repeated heaves to bring the ribbon back to his side, but was in vain, and at the lapse of the three minutes, the university had won by five clear inches. While the tug was going...
Eighty-eight won the drop by a fraction of an inch, but did not hold it long, and at the end of two minutes the ribbon, was exactly in the middle. Both sides lay on the rope for the next minute, and each anchor was laying for the other in order to catch him in case he should start to heave. During the fifth minute, Balch took in rope, and by a succession of powerful heaves brought the ribbon one and a half inches over to his side, where it remained until time was called. The victorious team was carried...