Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Outing for November will have an important article on "The Development of Football," prepared by a Yale player and containing valuable it formation on this sport. In the same number, Walter Camp discusses the question of professional umpires...
...varsity eleven remains yet to be seen; but however this may be, there has certainly been an enthusiasm aroused which must if not directly, yet indirectly help the cause of football here. And this is exactly what has been needed. More men have taken active interest in the sport this year than at any time perhaps in the history of college athletics, and as a result we have had hard work and good teams...
...beside the effects of the class series upon the sport itself, there has been another result which is in the long run quite as beneficial. We refer to the reawakening of class enthusiasm. The university spirit here has among its dangers the total extinction of class feeling, and this tandency has been quietly at work for the last few years. That all class enthusiasm should be crushed out, however, seems far from desirable. We are a little apt in some ways to grow old too soon here at Harvard, and in the development of our individuality to forget that class...
...been done by the Athetic Association in regard to the regular hare and hounds runs which have always taken place at this time of year. There are many men in college who play neither foot ball nor tennis, but who would be only too glad to participate in a sport which requires neither skill nor a great amount of muscle. In previous years the large number of entries have proved the popularity of the sport, and the slowness of the managers in renewing it this year, if for no other reason than to develop material for the Mott Haven team...
...fall athletic season has begun and foot-ball has been fairly started, it seems time to bring up for consideration the annual hare and hounds runs of the H. A. A. These runs have served three distinct and valuable purposes in past years-to afford an afternoon of delightful sport, to give the participants the best of athletic training, and to develope material for the Mott Haven team. During the last few days we have heard many express a wish for the revival of the sport. and signify their desire to participate in cross country runs. Indeed, the demand...