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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with great difficulty that Harvard succeeded in defeating Williams last Saturday by the close score of 5 to 4. Williams has a very strong nine this year and Harvard appeared weak at the bat. This is not surprising considering the quality of the nines that have played against Harvard so far this year, but the batting must improve in order to win against Yale and Princeton. Gallivanled at the bat for Harvard and Henshaw caught without an error. The battery work of Williams was especially fine, Clark showing only one passed ball. Hotckiss carried off the batting honors. The treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, 5; Williams, 4. | 4/30/1888 | See Source »

...view are "Crowded out and become discouraged." We venture to say that anyone who could make such an assertion as that can never have visited the Hemenway gymnasium on a winter afternoon, or have seen one of the many "scrub matches in baseball and football, which take place every year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/30/1888 | See Source »

THERE will be, at 7.30 tonight, in Holden Chapel, a meeting of the Foot-Ball Association for the election of officers for the ensuing year. There will also be other matter to come before the meeting on the subject of intercollegiate football. It is hoped that there will be a large attendance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 4/30/1888 | See Source »

...majority of the committee of the overseers appointed to consider the letics say in their report that during the last year ninety-four contests took place costing $25,000. The existing system does not tend to encourage a general habit of exercises among the students, but rather discourages it. In rowing, for instance, single and double sculls have nearly disappeared, and the whole energy of the boating men is devoted to the 'varsity crew. The students are becoming divided into two classes, those who are actively engaged in athletics, and those who take no interest in physical exercise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Overseers Report on Athletics. | 4/30/1888 | See Source »

Voted, That the faculty be requested to prohibit any undergraduate from taking part in any athletic contests with the students of any other college or with any organization not belonging to the university during the college year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Overseers Report on Athletics. | 4/30/1888 | See Source »

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