Word: won
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course lay through Norton's woods almost straight to College Hill; through the college grounds to North Avenue and back by way of West Somerville to Porter's Station where the break for home was made. The bags were found. The hares won by nearly half an hour. The first hare in was F. B. Dana, '88. H. Kuhn, '87 was second. There will be as many more hunts as the weather will allow...
Resolved: that Yale according to the points made should have won the championship...
...freshman eleven, as reconstructed, has proved to be a strong team, and the game they played on Saturday was very creditable, resulting as it did in the first victory that a Harvard freshman team has won from Yale for ten years. A game like this destroys Yale's prestige, as being invincible by Harvard at foot-ball. We may now confidently assume that a new era has set in, and that next year's freshman team, aided as it will be by practice against what will be a more experienced and consequently a better University eleven, may follow the good...
...game was not called until quarter past three on Saturday, owing to a discussion whether Harding was really a freshman and entitled to play. The Yale captain yielded at last. Harvard won the toss and took the upper end of the field, having the sun behind them and what wind there was in their favor, while Yale had the kick...
...Pennsylvania, Messrs. Young and Posey. Mr. Savage presided. As soon as he had taken the chair, Captain Corwin of Yale moved that the championship for this year be awarded to Yale. Mr. Bird, delegate from Princeton objected that the championship could not be awarded because Yale and Princeton won four games each; that Thursday's game was no game according to the decision of referee Harris. He added that the Princeton delegation would withdraw if Yale agreed to go out with them and leave the final decision in the hands of Harvard, Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania, the three...