Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Athletics at Andover have never been in a better condition than now, and this is due to a great extent to Andover's athletic victories of the past year...
Andover has seldom had a better football team than this year's. Its record was an exceptional one, as the eleven was defeated but twice: once by Harvard and once by Tech. Of the eleven men on the team, seven will enter college next fall. Of these Upton and Hunt will enter Harvard, Coxe, Bliss and Owsley enter Yale, and Mowry and Speer enter Princeton...
...baseball everything augurs well. Stearns, last year's pitcher, has been elected captain, and will pitch again this year. Upton, change catcher and short-stop last year, will probably catch; White, last year's second base, will play first; Anderson, a new man, second base; Owsley, captain of the Lawrenceville School nine last year, will very likely play third. Leland, a new man, will play in the outfield with Dickerman and Dalzell. The team plays a good fielding game, but are not very heavy batters...
During the remainder of the year there will be bargains in books. Some book or set of books will be offered at an unusually low price for one day only...
Yale men are talking rather dubiously in regard to their chances for winning the baseball pennant again in the spring. The famous battery without which the nine could have done but little during the past three years, has been broken up by the graduation of Dann, and it is said that Stagg is unwilling to play again. These losses taken together with Harvard's increased chances on account of the removal of certain restrictions, make the New Haven men talk as if the loss of the pennant by Yale next spring was by no means improbable. Captain Noyes will have...