Word: season
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Later there is a mass meeting of Harvard, preconcerted and encouraged by Princeton's rival, Yale, in which proposition is made to withdraw from the foot ball league at once, and which ends luckily in the withdrawal of Harvard, to take place at the end of the season, and Princeton is held up to the scorn of all true sons of Harvard...
...Springfield on Saturday afternoon Harvard played and lost her last game of the season to Yale by a score of six to nothing. There was a tremendous crowd in attendance, fully twelve thousand people occupying the grand stands and coaches. The Yale supporters predominated, but over a thousand men went down from Cambridge alone, while there was any number of graduates present to cheer for the crimson. It was a magnificently played game throughout by both sides and not until the last few minutes of the play could it be at all definitely decided who were to be the winners...
...score was five to nothing in favor of Williams, but Dartmouth braced strongly in the next half and scored five touchdowns to William's one, leaving the final score twenty to nine. At the Berkeley oval, New York, Cornell defeated Columbia twenty to nothing. The last game of the season was played at Princeton, the Orange Athletic club being defeated by a score of 54 to 6. Pennsylvania won from Lehigh at Philadelphia, fourteen to nothing. The Cambridge High school defeated the Boston Latin easily by a score of 54 to nothing...
...loss of the Yale game Harvard takes third place in the championship series. Though the season has not been as successful as we hoped and expected it would be, yet there is much in the record of the eleven of which we may justly be proud. In practice the men have trained hard and faithfully, and in the great games they have made every exertion to win. A closer or better contested game than that of Saturday could hardly be imagined. In so slight a defeat there is no disgrace. It can safely be said that no Harvard eleven...
...following are the results of all games played by Harvard this season...