Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inferior to the inter-collegiate affair. And in base-ball both universities can and do raise very skillful second nines. But besides, with their resources of large classes and departments, Harvard and Yale can not only equip their representatives for business, but they can enlarge the true blessings of sport, by making it more general and by bringing in many men of feeble physical mould, who need just the experience of the athletic field to fit them for usefulness. Of course practice games for instruction can be had with professionals...
...interest shown in the hare and hounds runs this fall gives evidence of the high appreciation which is placed on that sport by the students here. It is a pity that the weather is now becoming so cold that many of those who have run with the hounds so far this year are by degrees dropping out from the list without any fresh recruits taking their places. In all probability there will only be two or three more hunts this season, and an athletic sport which had such a good beginning ought certainly to have a good ending...
...results of the foot-ball game of Saturday between Harvard and Princeton teams ought to settle the question of colleges sanctioning the sport longer. Foot-ball as a college sport ought...
Yale has never been noted for the success of her tug-of-war team, although there is no scarcity of good material in college. Last season the meeting with Columbia at the armory did much to awaken an interest in that sport here, and the team which represented Yale last Spring was the best she ever sent out. This fall a series of pulls between six teams representing the entire university, have been arranged, each team to pull three times with every other team, and the final pull to be a feature of the winter games. It is hoped...
...athletic sports, foot-ball is the best game to test a man physically. In the pushing and hauling, its jostling, trampling struggle for supremacy, few muscles of the body are inactive. In spite of the accidents attending this game, as at present played, no sport affords better opportunity for vigorous training. Though rowing contributes largely to the development of the back and legs, and slightly to the arms and chest, to the gymnasium and foot-ball training we must attribute much of the superb muscular development of rowing...