Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interests our university is foot ball. The game of last Saturday is talked over and the prospects of success on Thanksgiving day. If the arrangements in the future for the handling of the crowds and preservation of good order, at the big championship games, will only equal those at Springfield, the pleasure of attending the games will be much increased...
...Harvard, it is conceded, has been generally outwitted by Yale in council as well as in the field, and we read this morning that Yale is showing her love for her new friend and quondam enemy by quite as many men ruled off the field at Springfield as were ruled off the Princeton team at Cambridge. And yet, I fear, only because there is no such disparity in the score, there is mutually admiration and good feeling between Harvard and Yale. "Those of us who were in college when Princeton was the friend and Yale the enemy owe to Princeton...
...Springfield on Saturday afternoon Harvard played and lost her last game of the season to Yale by a score of six to nothing. There was a tremendous crowd in attendance, fully twelve thousand people occupying the grand stands and coaches. The Yale supporters predominated, but over a thousand men went down from Cambridge alone, while there was any number of graduates present to cheer for the crimson. It was a magnificently played game throughout by both sides and not until the last few minutes of the play could it be at all definitely decided who were to be the winners...
...Ames, Riggs, George and Chaning of the Princeton team were at Springfield to see Saturday's game...
...Shooting club won its second victory over Yale at Springfield on Saturday in a closely contested match. The conditions of the match were fifteen bluerocks and fifteen clay pigeons for each man. As no bluerocks could be obtained it was found necessary to substitute keystone birds. The strange birds and, the high wind which was blowing during the first part of the match materially affected the shooting at the beginning...