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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gained nothing. Ames then ran around Pratt's end and made five yards, but on the next down little Beecher squirmed through and got the ball. On a fumble by half-back, Yale lost ten yards and had a down on her fifteen-yard line. Bull kicked a sky-scooper and Pratt and Wallace launched themselves like pile-drivers at Ames. Princeton had the ball down in the middle of the field, and after Ames had made five yards by running around Pratt, Cowan gained nothing and Price lost. Ames kicked and Bull had a down on Yale's tenyard...
...Cambridge on the Charles" is a wide view across the river marshes of the trees and spires of the town. The stream winds on unrippled in the sun and the drowsy shade is massed densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push up into the sky on the right. Low in the middle distance is the cupola of Hemenway Gymnasinm, and further on a slender spire or two more. The whole thing is dreamy and soft and full of summer. "Elmwood" shows one side of Lowell's home with a view of the broad veranda...
...large number of spectators who were attracted to Jarvis Field, in spite of the wet ground and cloudy sky, show clearly what a strong interest is felt in the prospects of Harvard College in the coming contest...
...Wednesday afternoon at New Haven, the Yale freshmen won the second and last game of the series with the Harvard freshmen. The sky was overcast and there was no wind, but the number of spectators was very small. The game was interesting up to the eighth inning, when Harvard went to pieces...
...composite photograph of the voices of '88 and '89, taken during yesterday's game, would be a curiosity. The junior picture would have a sky-rocketty effect, due to the introduction of the Princeton cheer, while that of '89 would have a lurid background and a leaden finish. McPherson established a good record for himself in the box, but Gallivan's three-bagger in the eighth knocked off a finger-nail and forced him to withdraw. Eighty-nine put in Downer in his place, after some little discussion, and the '88 men nearly knocked the ball to pieces. That eighth...