Word: scrubbed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class crews do not usually begin work until after the Christmas vacation, but this year each crew entered into some sort of training during the fall. During the football season, the '89 crew formed itself into a scrub football team, while '90, '91 and '92 rowed on the river until the floats were taken up. Since the vacation all the crews except the freshmen have taken advantage of the open weather and have been practicing on the river...
...interest in football among the "non-professionals," as those who have not played on regular teams are sometimes called, has been greater this fall than ever before. Frequently during the regular foot ball season "scrub" games took place; and since Thanksgiving scarcely a pleasnt day has passed without witnessing one or two matches. This lively interest in football is a good omen for the game and the advantages arising from such informal matches are obvious. Often men who otherwise would never take the opportunity to learn the game, turn out to be very fine players from the prace ice they...
...candidates for the '89 crew, and anyone else who desires to join a scrub game of foot-ball, please be on Jarvis...
...scrub football eleven, called the "Amateurs" has been organized in college The purpose of the organization is purely one of sport and exercise. Several games have been played with the Newton, Roxbury Latin School, and Cambridge Latin School elevens, and arrangements have been made for other games...
...Harvard scrub team, the "Amateurs" played a tie game with the Newton eleven last Saturday, the score standing 12 to 12. The Newton team was the same one that beat the freshmen...