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Dartmouth won the championship of the eastern intercollegiate league by defeating Stevens Institute at Hoboken yesterday morning by a score...
Fully 30,000 people witnessed the final contest in the intercollegiate league yesterday, when Yale played Princeton at the Berkeley oval. The supporters of Yale predominated and were re-en-forced in their cheering by several hundred Harvard students, who were to a man in favor of Yale...
...Yesterday's game was a repetition of the Harvard-Princeton game in one particular. As with Harvard, Princeton played very closely with Yale in the first half and the chances slightly favored Yale. But Princeton's superior powers of endurance were shown in the second half at no time during which was the game in doubt...
...game yesterday morning at the Berkeley Oval resulting in a victory for Wesleyan gives the University of Pennsylvania fifth place in the league. Each of the teams have had some of their best players laid up and it was expected that the contest would be closely fought throughout. During the first half, although Pennsylvania fought stubbornly for every inch of ground, Wesleyan rather forced the play and scored a touchdown from which a pretty goal was kicked. During this half, however, Pennsylvania worked the ball down the field and Wesleyan was compelled to touch it down for a safety. This...
...audience which crowded Appleton Chapel to its fullest capacity yesterday afternoon had a rare musical treat. The Harvest Cantata, composed by Garrett, with words selected and written by Dr. Waller, was sung by the choirs of Appleton chapel and St. Paul's church, Boston. After a short service conducted by the Rev. F. G. Peabody, the organist introduced the Cantata with a magnificent rendering of the Hallelujah chorus from Beethoven's Mount of Olives. The recitative with which the cantata began was finely given by Richardson of the St. Paul's choir. The Chant of Young Men was especially good...