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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June the nine again fell foul of their friends, the "Somersets," and again won, 60-11, and four days afterwards met the "Athletics" of Philadelphia and United States Champions. The "Athletics" were naturally victorious, 22-10, but the Harvard team made an exceedingly creditable showing. The game was the "most scientific ever seen in New England, up to this time. As errors were not scored, we cannot tell the relative merits of the nines, but the "Athletics" probably excelled in both fielding and batting. Parker again distinguished himself in this game by his up-in the-air fly-catching...
Lyons, '85, of Yale has made the longest throw and also the longest hit in the Inter-collegiate record. The distance of the throw was 385 feet 2 inches that of the hit was 450 feet from the home plate to the spot at which the ball fell...
...Byron. All the parts are open and a vigorous competition is anticipated. There is also a movement on foot to get up a minstrel entertainment. There is good material in college for such an undertaking; the scheme has been suggested in the past but always fell through for lack of a leading man to rush it to completion...
...foot-ball captaincy this year fell to the fortune of '89. W. J. Cook, '89, was elected. While the choice in some ways is eminently a good one, it caused considerable dissatisfaction in the junior class, and that too among the representatives of the class on the team. They claim that the election was contrary to precedent, and as they have the back-bone of the coming team in their class, and among them many competent to captain the team, there was no call for the slight given to the class. The '88 representatives on the team, have signified their...
...SECOND FALL. - Members of the course Phil. - will recall one of the illustrations used concerning an apple orchard of heroic times, the keeper of which Adam, fell from grace because of one of the apples. Yesterday on account of the juice of similar apples, another Adam had received another fall. The Cambridge vote of yesterday was the cause of the Schute...