Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from that academy has not been beaten by a Harvard freshman team since the fall of 1881, Last year, and the year before, our teams returned with doleful tales of defeat, attributing their ill success to one cause or another, and making vigorous complaints about playing in a "brick-yard," the somewhat harsh tile they gave to the Andover foot ball field. From this it will be seen that Eighty-Eight has no easy task before her, and that, while only the sharpest of work can win a victory for the class, yet that victory will be one to remember...
...team played the University of Pennsylvania and beat them 31 to 0. We would have beaten them more but for the referee. We had three touchdowns which were not allowed. Pennsylvania did not once have the ball inside of our 25-yard line through the excellent play of our backs, Baker and Lamar, who are playing beautifully. I don't understand how the University of Pennsylvania beat Harvard. I do not think Harvard plays with enough head, or rough enough. This year the player and ball must be held before it is down and a team will have to throw...
...witnessed the start of the third Hare and Hounds run of the season. At a few minutes after four, the Hares, Webster '87, and Dudley '87, started from Matthews. Seven minutes after the master, Russel '87, led a pack of nine hounds in pursuit. The course led across the yard, through Divinity Avenue, and into Norton woods where the scent was lost for a few moments. The course now led towards the Somerville bleachery, and over Winter hill where the omnipresent "mucker" had laid false trails and baffled the hounds for several minutes. Picket fences, unpleasant bogs, vegetable gardens...
...YARDS DASH-FIRST TRIAL HEAT.1. F. S. Billings, '85, scratch. 2. G. F. Brandt, '85, 1 yard. 3. E. Norton, '85, 5 yards. 4. H. A. Buck, '87, 6 yards...
SECOND TRIAL HEAT.1. J. D. Bradley, '86, 1 yard. 2. E. H. Rogers, '87, 2 yards. 3. C. A. Porter, '88, 2 yards. 4. E. M. Garnett, '87, 5 yards...