Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fall there was sometimes a cry that more men were needed to play against the eleven. Now in the spring the same need is felt by the captain of the lacrosse team. Although good work and practice can be accomplished by even a small number of men in this sport, yet the play which most resembles a match game, the long throwing and general team work can only be best brought about by having two large sides or the team against all comers...
...LIGHT-WEIGHT SPRRING.For this four men, J. D. Bradley, '86, T. R. Varick, '87, E. E. Blodgett, '87, and W. E. Faulkner, '87, were entered. The event gave promise of some exciting sport, nor were the audience disappointed...
...same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would it not be the part of wisdom and prudence to restrict the movement to an attempt to rescue football from the category of exhibitions of brutality? This "sport" seems to us to be most in need of reform. Life would still be worth living for the Harvard undergraduate, even if Yale were shut out from these contests, provided base-ball, the race at New London, and other athletics were not interfered with. [Transcript...
...able to ride two or even three heats in a afternoon with half an hour's rest between. As to the strength necessary we wonder at Mr. Reed's statements, for among bicycle riders it is usually the custom to ride two races in an afternoon's sport...
...give the proper instruction in wrestling, jumping, etc., which events go to make up the programme of these meetings, just as much as for instruction in track athletics later in the season. Much is also due perhaps to the general unsettled tone which has pervaded all branches of sport during the winter. This has been due to the general vacillating and non-committal policy which the faculty have pursued in their attempts to regulate athletics by inter-collegiate conferences and committees...