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...excitement which was felt in the decisive Yale-Harvard base ball game last June is well illustrated by the following: "The opinion was well-nigh universal that for intense, sustained and towards the last positively painful interest, the game has been unequalled in the last ten years. In the eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down...
Tickets for Yale-Harvard freshman game now on sale at Bartlett's. Admission 50 cents; Beacon game, 25 cents...
Today the much-debated Yale-Harvard freshman game takes place at New Haven. Although the Yale nine will have a certain advantage in playing on their own grounds and in the presence of their own friends, the college expects that our freshmen will play a game of which the class can find no reason to be ashamed. As a large crowd of enthusiastic supporters will accompany the nine, and as we believe from the records of the two nines that our freshmen play a better game than their opponents, we hope that the success for which they have earnestly worked...
...only be worked up into a homogeneous mass, playing well together as a unit, not liable to become "rattled" if by any mischance the score may at any time be adverse. With such work as is necessary, we cannot but hope for a creditable showing in this the first Yale-Harvard freshman lacrosse match...
...Harvard has three games yet to play, two with Dartmouth, which we must consider ourselves sure to win; and the final game with Yale. The importance of this game will depend on the issue of the coming games between the other colleges. If Yale wins all the games that are before her, beating Amherst again, the issue in the Yale-Harvard game will be whether Yale shall hold the championship, or an extra game be necessary. If Amherst wins in all her remaining games, including that with Yale, the Harvard-Yale game will decide wihch nine shall play...