Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...account of the Athletic Meeting last Saturday will be found on another page, and it will be seen that in two events our best previous records were surpassed. The sports were, in the main, creditable, but there were not as many new contestants drawn out as could have been wished. To be sure, the time for training in the autumn is short, and the greater attractions of football and rowing take away some men's attention from the Athletic meetings; but this cannot wholly explain the poor exhibition made by some of the contestants. When we take into consideration...
...LAST Saturday was as unfavorable a day for good records as could well have happened; but, in spite of the biting wind and clouds of dust, there was a good-sized audience on Jarvis Field, and the sports were fairly interesting...
ALTHOUGH the weather in Montreal was chilly, a large audience assembled on the Cricket Grounds, Saturday, to witness the return-game between the Britannias and the Harvards. The first game played by Harvard against the Canadians was in 1874, when the McGill team, under Mr. David Rodger's captaincy, was beaten by us in Boston. In the autumn of 1875 a Montreal club met with a similar fate. In the spring of 1876 an exceptionally strong team from "All Canada" was defeated on Jarvis Field, and again, in the following autumn, at Montreal. It was during this game that Harvard...
With this brilliant record to look back upon, our men played to win last Saturday. Britannia won the toss, and played with the wind, which was blowing hard. Harvard kicked off, and the sides were so much more evenly matched than in the previous game, that the ball was kept for the most part in the middle of the ground. Before the end of the first half-hour, however, Winsor kicked a goal, - the only one scored during the game. In the last half, Britannia had only fourteen men, as P. S. Ross had been severely hurt. They did their...
BOSTON THEATRE. - "My Partner" will be played for the last time on Saturday night. Mr. Aldrich gives a fine impersonation of the hero, Joe Saunders. Next week Grau's French Opera Company appear. Monday and Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoon, "La Fille de Madame Angot" will be played; Wednesday, "La Grande Duchesse"; Thursday and Saturday evenings, "Girofle-Girofla"; and Friday evening, "La Perichole." Paola Marie and Capoul appear at every performance...