Word: played
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...since the withdrawal on these grounds has been, under misapprehension, approved by members of the Harvard faculty and board of overseers, as stated in the press, we assert that we have evidence in our possession that members of the Harvard eleven were offered pecuniary inducement to enter college to play foot-ball and are at present beneficiaries of the college funds...
...much like saying to Princeton, "We cannot beat you, but we consider you the scum of the earth, and we will shove you out if we can." To which Princeton naturally answers. "shove ahead, and we'll see who goes out! " For we must remember, we cannot play in New York, and that it would lose Yale thousands of dollars if we got the Thanksgiving day game. The fact is, as Mr. Codman says, Yale has been using us this year as a cat's paw to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. I think you are right...
...Seeing that Harvard and Yale have in an unsportsmanlike manner agreed to make a combine or trust and play exclusive football between themselves, the Philadelphia Item has decided to offer a silver football valued at $250, as a trophy for competition, emblematic of the intercollegiate football championship of America, open for competition among all colleges of America, Harvard and Yale barred...
...Hawes, F. H. Gage and M. C. Nichols must make arrangements and play games with men in their sections before Wednesday, December 4, or their games will be forfeited...
...Senator.William H. Crane and company opened a two weeks engagement at the Hollis Street Theatre last evening in the new American comedy "The Senator." The play is a satire on the American habit of always being in a hurry. The play wrights have selected a field hitherto unworked-life at the capitol, and have produced a comedy that is admirable in every particular. Mr. Crane has found in Hannibal Rivers, the senator, a role peculiarly adapted to his talents, and his success in it may safely be said to be greater than in any role he has previously essayed...