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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Shortly after the Harvard-Wesleyan game at Middletown two weeks ago, the Wisleyan Argus published two editorials, the spirit of which the following extracts will indicate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1888 | See Source »

...account of lack of time the second half was only twenty minutes long. Rushes by Dean, Porter and Fitzhugh advanced the ball twenty-three yards, when it went to Wesleyan on a fumble the Wesleyan back muffed a pass, and Harvard getting the ball, Sears punted to the fifteen-yard line. Trafford stopped the return kick and dropped on the ball, making the sixth touchdown for Harvard. Fitzhugh kicked a goal. No points were made; but Wesleyan nearly scored against Harvard, when a hard punt of Sears was stopped and the ball rolled nearly to Harvard's line, where Wesleyan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, 34; Wesleyan, 0. | 10/22/1888 | See Source »

...ball. The tackling and holding are still the weak points. The tacks were unable to rush well on account of the slippery ground; all, however, punted well. The best work in the rush line was done by Cranston, Davis and Cumnock. Slayback punted and tackled well for Wesleyan. Mr. Landon refereed the game. Harding was umpire in the first half; Beattys, Wesleyan, '85, the second, which, fortunately for Harvard, lasted only 20 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, 34; Wesleyan, 0. | 10/22/1888 | See Source »

...action of the Wesleyan team, and the Wesleyan men among the spectators were such as to justify Harvard teams in refusing to have anything to do with Wesleyan in the future. The substitutes of the team and two or three others followed the game around the field and accused the umpire of cheating at every decision he made against the Wesleyan team, while the crowd howled and hissed a chorus. The men on the team itself resorted to the meanest tricks "muckerism" could suggest to injure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, 34; Wesleyan, 0. | 10/22/1888 | See Source »

...first creditable showing made by the 'varsity eleven this season was in the game with Wesleyan last Saturday. Few, excepting those on the football ground, knew under what adverse circumstances the team was forced to contend. The treatment received by the eleven at the hands of the Wesleyan students was shameful. A detailed account of the game and the incidents attendant upon it will be found in another column...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/22/1888 | See Source »

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