Word: uncertaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fifty-five members of the senior class at Andover, thirty-three will go to Yale, fourteen to Harvard, one to Dartmouth, one to Princeton, and six remain uncertain...
Base-ball is also being watched, and at present there are fourteen candidates for positions on the team. King, '89, will captain the nine and pitch, but the make-up of rest of the team is very uncertain. Ames, '90, however, is almost sure to play second base and change pitcher. The following is the list of other candidates: Brownlee, '89, Brokaw, '92, Brown, '92, Dana, '91, Lilly, '92, Mowry, '91, Watts, '91, Hanson, '92, Durell, '89, Payne, '91, Knickerbocker, '91, McMillan...
Very naturally, football is at present the most engrossing topic in college circles, and the result of the Harvard Princeton game is awaited with a degree of interest second only to that you yourselves feel. A number of accidents has kept our eleven in an uncertain state as regards its composition; Gill '89 and Rhodes '91 are just recovering from sprains, while Woodruff '89 did not begin training with the team until the first of this week. The half-backs are not chosen yet and probably will not be until the Princeton game. The work of the freshman team...
Finlay is still suffering from the effects of the injury he received several days ago, and it is uncertain when he will be able to play again...
...along without any idea as to whether he was going through a hole in the rush line or into his opponent's arms. Neither of the half-backs got under the ball when it was kicked, but almost invariably waited for the bound, which is a wretchedly slow and uncertain way of playing, at best. The fact that the ball was slippery and the quarter-back passed too swiftly would excuse the backs for some fumbling, but certainly not for the bad work of yesterday. It is plain the team must "take a brace," and today is not too early...