Word: team
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princetonian of last Friday had an amusing satire on the crippled condition of Yale's team...
Cadets at Annapolis are endeavoring to form a football team...
...game on Saturday between the Harvard freshmen and Boston Latin School elevens, resulted in an overwhelming victory for the freshmen. The Boston Latin School eleven displayed good team work, and their backs especially, showed up well. The freshmen played a good game most of the time. The rushers broke through quickly, but were slow in tackling; the backs ran remarkably well and gained ground at nearly every rush. The game began at three o'clock, with the ball in possession of Harvard. The rushers formed a wedge and immediately forced the ball up to the Latin School's ten yard...
Whatever may have been Harvard's hopes for the football championship, they are now destroyed. It was not a feeling of over-confidence which led us to look forward to a victory at Princeton last Saturday, but a sincere belief that the steady training which our team had undergone since the beginning of the year would bring them out ahead. According to the reports received the team played collectively one of the poorest games this fall, but there can be but little doubt that they were clearly out matched. The best of good luck could not possibly have changed...
...spite of the disastrous outcome of the game there was one feature connected with it to which we may look with pleasure-the enthusiastic support given the team by Harvard graduates. Between four and five hundred were present at the game, cheering lustily for their alma mater. Such loyalty was certainly deserving of a better fate. To these graduates and to the undergraduates who followed the fortunes of the football team, the college owes its thanks...