Word: watching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tuesday and Friday. The club consists of about ten members, and has in its stables fourteen ponies. The grounds are about two miles from the square, on the road to Watertown. Yesterday being Decoration Day, a large crowd of both sexes collected along the edge of the grounds to watch the play The grounds consist of a well cut level field about 150 yards long and 75 yards wide. On the right hand side, as you enter, about half way towards the farther goal, there is a small house devoted to dressing-rooms. Very few trees surround the grounds...
...making every possible endeavor not to be shown four miles of rudder this year. In three weeks our crew leaves for New London, so that many days are left for those who wish to see the crew row before its departure. It should be of interest to all to watch the progress the crew is making, now that a final disposition of the men has been made...
Both sides played a pretty game and one pleasing to watch. The work of both teams was very steady, as the long time between goals and the smallness of the score show. for Harvard all the men seemed to play well. the defence seemed to play a little loosely at times and to this may be attributed, perhaps, the opportunities given to princeton to score, but Princeton certainly showed great quickness in charging in and passing in attacks on goal. In the Harvard attack, the throwing for goal did not seem to be accurate enough, several chance being lost...
...hope that this summary of Yale's work will help our freshmen to renew their energies on the ball field. Nor should the nine work alone. All the freshmen interested in their progress and ultimate success should spare as much time as possible to go out on Jarvis and watch their classmates at work. Encouragement is what is wanted, and it can be given in no better way than by watching the nine practice. Each player is more likely to do better and play sharper if he knows that he is watched by the critical eyes of a number...
...previous year in the history of Harvard boating has there been so much interest centered in the class races. Every day a large number of students go down to the boat-house to watch the different crews at their work on the river. Eight men in a boat, moving backward and forward with machine-like regularity, all with caps corresponding to the colors of their oars, present a fine sight. Each of the three upper class crews entertain great hopes of victory, and take every opportunity to improve its chines of success. These three crews are so evenly matched that...