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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...total of the Yale foot-ball score so far this year is 68 goals and 21 touch-downs to opponents' 22 safety touch-downs...
Morgan kicked off for Columbia at 3 o'clock, and after a little scrimmaging and tackling, Peters made a touch-down, Terry following with the first goal for Yale inside of two minutes. In six minutes he sent in another from the field. Some fine running and dodging b Farewell soon added another for the dark blues. One or two New Haven men made an attempt at a "Rah, Rah !" but it sounded so lonesome that the attempt was not repeated during the rest of the afternoon. A pretty play by Robinson and Farewell, of the Yale team, won applause...
...well down when time was called for the second half, and the half frozen spectators sought shelter in their coat-collars. After a few scrimmages and some bad fumbling, on both sides, Terry kicked in a goal from the field for Yale. A good stop and touch-down by Peters gave them another. The Columbia men worked together in better style in this half, and made several fine plays; but a Yale man was always on hand to prevent their reaching the goal. The New Haveners had to fight hard for the third goal, but the fourth, fifth and sixth...
...ball passed a few feet outside the posts. Shortly after another trial was made but the ball rebounded from a Princeton rusher and was soon at the foot of our posts. In a maul-in-goal which followed, Kimball of Princeton secured the ball and scored a touch down from which Moffat kicked an easy goal. The ball was brought out and Harvard went to work in earnest so that in a very short time the ball was forced to Princeton's ground. The ball was passed back to Cowling and he kicked a very pretty goal from the field...
...positions assumed by a horse in motion. By means of the instantaneous system of photography the lecturer had obtained a series of views of a moving horse, which gave correctly every attitude, and which have settled conclusively many vexed questions. It was clearly shown that in walking a horse touches the ground with his left lateral hind foot, left lateral fore foot, right lateral hind foot and right lateral fore foot, in the order named. Two and sometimes three feet in the walk and amble are always on the ground. In the trot, rack, canter and run the horse...