Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...legitimate conclusion from the Crimson's argument, we think, that the establishment of class nines should be undertaken, in order to furnish well-trained candidates for the 'Varsity nine, as well as for the equally important purpose of affording to a larger number of men a constant chance for sport...
...sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual defeat can be the only lot of the smaller colleges, we do not see what pleasure or profit they can gain from membership. The ideal aim of keeping alive inter-collegiate amity and good feeling...
...signified their intention of competing for a position on their class nine. Included in this number are several men who, at their fitting schools, particularly distinguished themselves in this branch of athletics, and others who, although with but little experience, still have shown remarkable aptitude for the sport. If the meeting Thursday evening, both as regards enthusiasm and in point of numbers, can be taken as an indication of '86's prospects on the ball field, we can say that they are certainly very favorable...
...interesting to some of your readers to hear something of the sentiment at Princeton concerning Yale's methods of playing foot-ball. The Courant in its last number seems to claim that Yale, instead of having done incalculable injury to the manly sport, has "almost entirely developed" "the present science of play." Such statements certainly rob Princeton as well as Harvard of due praise. Yale has done the game quite as much harm as she boasts she has done it good. She has made it a dangerous game; she, chiefly, has made umpires as well as referees necessary...
There is to be a meeting at 43 Weld at 7.30 this evening of all who intend to compete for a place on the freshman nine, and it is most earnestly desired that every man in the class, whether experienced or not, who has any taste for the sport, will present himself at the appointed time. The meeting is for the purpose of organizing and of ascertaining the number of candidates. In so large a class there ought not be any lack of material, and we hope '86 will make as good showing on the diamond as she bids fair...