Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them and their friends, are no doubt, under the questionable laws of sport, entitled to make out of them, financially, all that they can, and there is no reason why the tricks of the trade should then be ignored by college men any more than by other conscienceless sportsmen. But it is, and has been, assumed that these contests have been between gentlemen; that it was the honor of their university that they were seeking to advance in entering into them, and not that they were encounters gotten up for the purpose of filling the pockets, either of the oarsmen...
...first the members contented themselves with shooting for cups and medals offered from time to time by the club. Last year two new features were introduced - matches with outside clubs and an inter-class team match. Two matches were shot in the spring of 1886 with the Dedham Sportsmen Club, in both of which the Harvard team was successful. The inter-class match between four-men teams from the different classes came off on the 20th of May. It was a most exciting match, resulting in a tie between the '86 and '87 teams for first place, '89 next...
...motion of Yale, Harvard at the last meeting of the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association, was re-admitted into the league. We hail this read-mission with feelings of genuine satisfaction. The position that Harvard men hold in the ranks of the amateur sportsmen is marred only by our inferiority in foot-ball. The action of the faculty last winter and our return to the college league, have placed us where we can show that our prowess in athletics is not confined to rowing, base-ball, lacrosse, polo, and field sports...