Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Clermont Livingston de Peyster, a former member of the class of '89, died on Monday evening, December 2, at the residence of his uncle in Philadelphia. He entered as a regular member of '89, but in his sophomore year left college and went abroad to study. Later he returned home and was attacked by consumption which was the cause of his death. Although he was in college so short a time, many of his classmates will remember him with feelings of sincere affection and his death will be a sad blow to them. The following resolutions have been adopted...
...Rhodes, '91, who has been elected captain of the Yale eleven for next year has had considerable experience as a foot ball player. He played on his class team the first year he went to Exeter in the fall of '85. The next year he was one of the best men on the Academy eleven which defeated Andover 26 to nothing. In his freshman year at Yale he was first substitute on the 'varsity being called out to play in both the Harvard and the Princeton games. Last year he was tackle on the Yale team and played a fine...
...Yale opened the game with a V, Barbour holding the ball; by this maneuver they gained ten yards. Upton broke through the Yale line finely on the next two scrimmages, and prevented any gain. Yale could not gain the necessary five yards by the next rush, so the ball went to Harvard. It was passed to Fearing who ran around the end and gained twenty-five yards. Several short rushes followed. Upton then took the ball and carried it ahead ten yards. Frothingham rushed ten yards farther, but the ball was given to Yale for interference. Hamlin made a good...
...Springfield on Saturday afternoon Harvard played and lost her last game of the season to Yale by a score of six to nothing. There was a tremendous crowd in attendance, fully twelve thousand people occupying the grand stands and coaches. The Yale supporters predominated, but over a thousand men went down from Cambridge alone, while there was any number of graduates present to cheer for the crimson. It was a magnificently played game throughout by both sides and not until the last few minutes of the play could it be at all definitely decided who were to be the winners...
...large crowd collected in front of Bartlett's yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock to cheer the eleven. They went into town in a barge, and left for Springfield by the 4 o'clock train. One hundred Dartmouth students will be at Springfield today to witness the two football matches. The game in the morning between Dartmouth and Williams will probably decide the championship of the smaller colleges...