Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale-Wesleyan championship game was played at New Haven, Saturday and resulted in a crushing defeat for Wesleyan. Yale's team work, running and dodging were perfect, and Wesleyan, though playing a stronger game than against Princeton and Harvard, were helpless. The teams were as follows...
...Wesleyan.- Crane, Johnson, Eaton, Gardner, Heath, Glenn, Floy; quarter-back, Eggleston; half-backs, Hall and McDonald; full-back, Slayback...
...such as to encourage the college; but during the last few days a perceptible improvement has been shown, both in the work of the rush line and that of the backs; and, as a consequence, well-grounded hopes of victory are entertained by the college. The score made against Wesleyan was not one to encourage the undergraduates. But it must be remembered that no incentive was offered for extra exertion, while slow cautious play was indulged in lest the game should result in the disability of some member of the team. In accidents Princeton appears to have surpassed her competitors...
...regard to the outcome of the games with Yale and Harvard, and foot-ball is once more the topic of interest as is usual at this period of the year. Friends of the eleven have had their hopes slightly dampened by the play of the team in the Wesleyan game, and the injury of Hodge, end rush, resulting therefrom. It is decidedly doubtful whether or not Hodge will be able to resume his place in the Harvard game. His loss will materially weaken the team, as his playing has been a decided improvement over last year. Riggs...
...College on Decemper 5, 1776. It is believed that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter as well as the college itself is now defunct. Twenty-two chapters are now in existence, in the order of their establishment, at Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Union, Bowdoin, Brown, Trinity, Wesleyan, Adelbert, Vermont, Amherst, University of the City of New York, Kenyon, Williams College, City of New York, Middlebury, Columbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Cornell...