Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball nine, foot-ball and Mott Haven teams would not be kept up. To win first honors, no effort is spared to bring each to the highest point of excellence. When the rule probibiting the nine from practice games with professionals and from the employment of a professional coach went into effect, the nine was not only denied the most important privilege which the other teams continued to enjoy, but it was so badly handicapped that it was no longer able to hold its high place in the college matches...
...five o'clock on Friday last the Glee Club went to Lowell. After supper at the Merrimac House, the club went to Huntington Hall where a fair was in progress for the benefit of the Old Ladies' Home of Lowell. The club sang at intervals during the evening. In spite of the fact that it was the first concert of the year and that there was a constant buzz of conversation in the booths where the sale of fancy articles was going on, the singing was excellent. After the concert, there was dancing until late in the evening. The Yorick...
Although Columbia had no 'varsity eleven this fall, a great deal of interest was taken in foot-ball. Class teams were formed, and every day the men went up to the polo grounds to practice. An inter class series of games was arranged, and on November 30th the freshmen defeated the sophomores by a score of 12 to 8. This defeat of '91 was a great surprise to all, and was principally due to the excellent work of the freshmen backs. On the same days the juniors played the seniors, and easily won by a score of 30-0. This...
...only item in its account to which it is necessary to especially refer is one of the bills for medical attendance. This is a bill which was presented to a member of the team who had been seriously injured, for accompanying him to New York, where he went towards the end of his convalescence to witness the game on Thanksgiving day. The member of the team doubtless understood that the surgeon accompanied him out of friendship and a desire to see the game, in which he was personally interested. The surgeon chose to construe the case as a matter...
Play for the second half was called at 3.45, Harvard with the ball. The rushers made a V and Harding gained ten yards. Lee, Dennison and Wadsworth carried the ball to the eight-yard line where it went to Yale on four downs. Yale kicked and Dennison getting the ball by a good run carried it to the five-yard line and Newell made a touchdown five minutes after play was called. No goal. At this point Crosby took McClung's place. Newell stopped Hefflefinger's rush from the twenty-five-yard line and Yale kicked. Lee caught the ball...