Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for the lacrosse team met in the Trophy Room at the Gymnasium. Captain Burley opened the meeting and gave a brief sketch of the plans for the year and the method of training. There will probably be a trip to New York and Baltimore. A game with the Toronto club will be played in Cambridge...
Tuesday afternoon on Holmes Field at 3 o'clock, the Harvard lacrosse team played an interesting game with Toronto being defeated by the score of 8 to 4. At the end of the first 40 minute half, the score was 2 to 1 in Toronto's favor, but in the second half the Canadian team improved and made 6 to Harvard's 3. As Toronto has the strongest college team in the country, this is a very creditable showing for the Harvard team, some of whom played very well individually. The Canadians excelled in team work and their passing...
HARVARD. TORONTO...
...lacrosse squad has been having hard practice daily in preparation for the game with the Toronto University team today. Finlayson, an experienced Canadian player, now a member of the Boston lacrosse team, has been doing the coaching. The Harvard team is weak in stickwork, and to improvement in this particular, the practice has been especially directed. The greater part of the team have learned all they know of lacrosse since coming to Harvard, while several have played this year for the first time. For this reason the team will be at some disadvantage in playing with the Canadians...
...Lacrosse Team will play the Toronto team this afternoon on Holmes Field. The lacrosse men have had rather a hard time of it all the season. They have had no games here at which admission has been charged, and consequently the management is somewhat in need of funds. The Toronto team had to be given a large guarantee in order to bring them to Cambridge, and the management hopes to raise the sum from the gate receipts this afternoon. The game is sure to be interesting and promises to be close and exciting...