Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...approach of the annual foot-ball quarrel will relieve the anxious editors. So far as our advice to the freshman eleven is concerned, any comment from Yale will be gladly received, as the wearers of the blue have ever shown themselves so highly gentlemanly, so thoroughly manly in their support of their athletic teams that Yalensian support has become a proverbial expression of victory...
...meet at Princeton will be - as all Princeton receptions are - pleasant; the game, we might also predict, will be a pleasant one - from a Harvard stand point. Everyone knows how much cheering helps an eleven on to victory; everyone knows, too what a tremendous audience Princeton will have to support their team, and what a small, though hearty, delegation of Harvard men New York will find. Everyone who has a few dollars to spare should...
...great anniversary in the life and career of our ancient university. Our dear alma mater and our honored and progressive Commonwealth, have come down the centuries together, intimately allied for the advancement of sound learning, for a larger liberty, for a more intimate and patriotic citizenship, for a sympathetic support of the movements to improve the condition and welfare of our people, and to make universal the blessings of civil and religious freedom. To-day Massachusetts and Harvard university, receiving with gratitude the congratulations that come from all parts of the civilized world so abundantly, unite in joyful salutations...
...which Woodman kicked 9 goals. On the whole, Harvard played the best game of the year, though the backs fumbled the ball often; this was very excusable, as the ball was soaked with rain, and coated with mud. Dartmouth's captain, Odlin, played well, but his team did not support him at all. The teams were as follows: Harvard. Rushers, Holden, Bancroft, Wood, Brooks, Woodman, Butler, Harding; quarter-back, Fletcher; half-backs, Sears and Porter; full back, Peabody. Dartmouth. Rushers, Hurd, Morgan, Eaton, Dartt, Norton, Blossom, Hagen; quarter-back, Odlin, (capt); half-backs, Artz, Bodwell; fullback, Kelley. Referee...
Only a few freshmen have yet signed to accompany their team to Andover to-day. The freshmen ought to know by this time that it is their duty to support the team well if they expect them to win. At least a hundred men ought to accompany the team...