Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard gladly added Princeton to the number of her opponents, confidently went to meet her old rival, and now returns disappointed from the contest. In the study of causes which led to the defeat of Saturday, we find one which was wholly unforseen. It was but a week ago that Harvard was congratulated on having played eleven men through an entire game, with increased snap and dash in the second half. Conclusions of the most gratifying nature with regard to the physical condition of the team were freely drawn at the time. Now, apparently these must be reluctantly abandoned. During...
...which has before marked the game at Springfield must this year be vented in the Princeton game. Today's contest, the first since 1889, will be, as we sincerely hope, the beginning of a long series of games with an old and as her repeated victories show a formidable rival. Of the six games played between 1883 and 1889, Princeton won five. Since the League was ended, however, a settled system of training and coaching has been adopted under which the condition and the team play of the Harvard eleven has improved rapidly from year to year. In the game...
...being balloted for by adherents of the various colleges. The college that has the most ballots cast for it wins the flag. Up to Friday of last week Yale was ahead, when Harvard who was second picked up and at last accounts stood several ballots ahead of her rival. The price for each ballot is ten cents, and the contest will close on Saturday next...
...putting down as a matter of record the publication and the final suspension of the Harvard News, the CRIMSON is far from intending to vaunt itself over the failure of a rival Harvard paper...
...existence of two dailies at Harvard has involved certain features which are of very doubtful benefit. The constant effort of each paper to print everything which by even the remotest possibility may appear in the same day's issue of the rival paper, tends to cause the premature publication of matters which really need further investigation or confirmation. As a result inaccuracies sometimes occur, even though, as a rule, a paper may prefer the accuracy of an article to the chance of its being a "scoop...