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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard '88 eleven, after having looked over the calendar to find open dates, sent to New Haven proposing either Thanksgiving day or Nov. 29 as dates on which to play. Mr. Albert S. Cook, manager of the Yale eleven, also named two dates, the 12th and 15th of November. Word was sent at once that on neither of those two dates could the Harvard men travel to New Haven: on the twelfth, because contrary to faculty regulations: on the 15th because the Princeton game came on that day and some freshmen were detained by our university eleven. The Yale...
...fair criticism of the rowing of the men as crews. To say nothing, therefore, of the uniformity of the crew, a few observations are no doubt allowable concerning a few faults common to several of the men. The minor faults of handling the oars in feathering, dipping, in a word, of watermanship, are very serious and only surmountable by longer experience, but the great aim of a crew eight months before its expected race should be to acquire the fundamental qualities absolutely necessary to effective rowing. These essential qualities are, ability to sit up straight, which can only be acquired...
...line tackled well and got down on the ball together. Finney and Hurd rushed finely while Phillips played a steady, reliable game throughout. Kimball made several pretty runs and dodged very well, while Peabody tackled splendidly. The halfbacks were, however, lamentably weak in kicking, apparently using very little head word. The centre rush should snap the ball back without wasting so much time, and the quarterback should take in the situation better and know more surely what is the correct thing to do with the ball. If the rush line had not talked so much to the referee...
LOST- An overcoat, which was left on the steps of Matthews, when the class of '86 was photographed. Please leave word with janitor of Weld...
LOST- An overcoat, which was left on the steps of, Matthews, when the class of '86 was photographed. Please leave word with janitor of Weld...