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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Stagg, Hartwell, Gill, Rhodes, Wurtemburg and Ferris, of the Yale team, Wallace, the old Yale end rush, and Tracy Harris, the Princeton coach, were slectators of Saturday's game...
...following other foot ball games were played Saturday: At Springfield, championship game, Yale, 52, Wesleyan, 0; the Yale team played with six substitutes. At Williams, championship game, Williamston 18, Tech. 4; at Amherst, Amherst 72, Rochester 0; at Hartford, Trinity 12, Stevens 0; at Buffalo, Cornell 66, University of Michigan 0; at Easton, Lehlgh 6, Lafayette 6; at Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania 14, Rutgers...
...overwhelming defeat of Saturday was a great disappointment. The Faithful work of the eleven had led us to expect a victory and the beginning of a new era in Harvard athletics. During the first half and part of the second half our team played a wonderful game and victory seemed almost certain. The superior endurance of the Princeton team then began to count and during the last half hour the game was too one-sided to be interesting. The cause of the defeat was quite evident. Our men had not been trained to play a hard game for an hour...
...Princeton played a rough game throughout but the eleven was weakened very little by the loss of the men who were ruled off for foul play. Harvard's work was a trifle stronger than Princeton's in the first half, while in the second, every man on the home team weakened perceptibly, and the Princeton men got through Harvard's rushline without trouble. It is a question to what was due Harvard's weakening in the last third of the game but the great fault seemed to be that the men were not trained to play such a long...
...Saxe's punting gained ground repeatedly. All the backs, however, fumbled too much through the whole game. Dean's play was the steadiest on the field. His passing was accurate and his tackling was vigorous at all times. He and B. Trafford were about the only men on the team who were not almost exhausted when time was called...