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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard University Football Association has give cups to the members of the Ninety-nine football eleven for the class championship of 1897. The cups, which have just been completed, are similar to those given to 1901 for their victory over Yale-tall pewter mugs with glass bottoms showing the picture of the team. The men who received the cups are: J. W. Farley, captain, P. L. Brown, E. P. Davis, W. S. Simpson, G. W. Thompson, C. H. L. Johnston, C. E. Baldwin, J. B. Holden, N. W. Stowell, A. G. Kilbourn, H. D. Lloyd, J. A. Homans...
...cups presented by the Athletic Committee to the members of the Freshman football team who played in the Yale and Pennsylvania games have now arrived and are on exhibition in the CRIMSON window. The cups are of pewter, tall, and very handsome in shape. The bottom of each cup is glass with a transparency photograph of the team printed on it. On the front of the cup is the University seal with above it the inscription: "Presented by the Athletic Committee in behalf of the H. U. F. B. A. to-," and below it "for excelling in football." The score...
...days going very well and on others taking an inexcusable slump. Adams sets a lively stroke and keeps his crew up to their work. His fault which is the chief fault of the crew is a tendency to shorten. Marvin and Byrd in the middle of the boat are tall men and have had some experience in four rowing; both row a fairly long stroke. Robinson at bow is a new man; he rowed bow on the Weld '98 crew last year and is strong but slow...
...prepared at Groton School, where he got some experience in rowing. Last year he rowed 6 in his freshman boat, and was rowing at 2 in the 'Varsity this season, until he gave way to Bull a short time ago. Thomson is 21 years old, 6 feet 1/2 inch tall and weighs 174 pounds...
...pessimistic, we who in our own time have seen so many good things accomplished,- have seen slavery disappear and polygamy and international literary piracy; we who have seen the beginning of the protection of our forests; our ballot laws so vastly improved and the spoils system stricken a tall blow. But we shall meet with disaster after disaster in America-and perhaps one disaster more than even our constitution can stand, if we do not exert ourselves constantly in the elevation of public affairs...