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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second half opened with more energy. Perry and Austin made fine rushes and carried the ball near Exeter's goal. Exeter's ball. Passed to Graves, who fumbled it, and was obliged to score a safety. Harvard, 2; Exeter, 8. Perry and Blanchard steadily gained, but Graves' long punts brought the ball near Harvard's posts. Stickney got it and started with a clear field, but was finely tackled by Crane. Trafford soon got the ball and rushed it behind the line. Goal. Harvard, 2; Exeter, 14. The ball again in play, Perry carried it down the field toward Exeter...
...Harvard eleven defeated the Williams team yesterday by a score of 14 to 6. The field was in the worst possible condition, being so muday and slippery that good playing was impossible for the Harvard team. The Williams men were evidently used to playing in mud, for the condition of the ground did not appear to hamper them much. Time was called at 3 18, Harvard having the ball and the Williams team playing with the wind in its favor. The ball was kept in the centre of the field when it was forced to Williams ten-yard line...
...first half neither side scored and the ball was kept near the middle of the field most of the time. Harvard started off the second half in possession of the ball and soon forced it up to Cambridge's fifteen-yard line. Carpenter, by a good rush, carried it round the end and made a touchdown, from which he kicked a goal. The High School team now began to play harder, and good rushes took the ball to Harvard's twenty-yard line. Corbitt made a fine rush through the whole freshman team and got a touchdown. Goal. Score...
Princeton defeated University of Pennsylvania by a score...
...Saturday afternoon, Chase, '91, the winner of the college tournament, played P. S. Sears, '89, for the championship. Sears outplayed his opponent, who was not up to his usual mark, and won easily by a score of 6-1, 6-1, 6-1. Sears, therefore, remains the college champion. The players were frequently hampered by a crowd of small boys who pressed closely upon the courts, though repeatedly told to keep back. It is a pity that the college authorities do not take more care to have strangers kept off the athletic grounds...