Word: topped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three or four new football fields has thus been gained. It will be no longer possible for men from other colleges to watch the Princeton team at practice, for the parts of the grounds where there was formerly no fence have been surrounded by a stone wall on the top of which is built a wooden fence eight feet high. The entire field now measures 570x500 yards. There will be laid out on it two base ball diamonds and one foot ball field. The latter will be enclosed by a new one-third mile track between which and the fence...
...rowing tanks, the baths, and possibly the janitor's rooms. The second floor will contain the lockers, and some extra rooms for sparring and the athletic clubs. There will also be some bath rooms near the lockers. The main part of the gymnasium wild be in the top story and it is to be supplied with the best of apparatus. No statement is made in the plans whether the running tracks will be in a gallery or on the floor...
...MacDonald became the third Crimson player to win the Hobey Baker Award, given to the nation's top collegiate hockey player...
...attractive; as you enter, on the right is a high bank on the side of which the grand stand is situated. Gradually sloping upward from the grand stand is a large grove of forest trees, on the edge of which the very pretty stone club house stands. On the top of the bank there is a private road running along under the shade of the trees, which affords a chance for spectators in carriages and coaches to look directly down on the contestants. Every seat in the grand stand is a good one, which can not be said...
...members of Yale's last year's crew will receive trophies in the form of a watch charm. The design of the trophies is two crossed tripods, with an oar perpendicular across the surface, an olive wreath about the bottom and a strand of rope on the top which will attach to the chain. On the upper part of the front will be the words, "Harvard vs. Yale, 20:10, record," and upon the back will be engraved the name and position of the men and the date of the race...