Word: blue
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Captain Beecher, Yale FootBall Club: Macie virtue! Bully for you! We ploughed the ground with 'em. Faculty and corporation tickled to death, and predict '92 will be the largest class ever entered. Put on my blue dressing gown, blue trousers, blue flannel shirt, and rang bell till peelers interfered. What a glorious day for Yale! Shall preach on "The Ennobling Effects of College Athletics' next Sunday. Hope the boys are sober to-night."- Timothy Dwight...
...colors of Princeton College are black and yellow. After a fierce baseball game, however, the colors sported by the members of the team are black and blue...
...work this fall and they may be certain that their deeds will not soon be forgotten. We must content ourselves this year with an honorable second place, and with the determination that next year, it shall be no fault of ours if the crimson does not float above the blue...
...wise counsel have always been at the service of the team. When he was in college he was not only an admirable player, but he dignified the game by infusing into it skill, strategy and generalship surprising those unacquainted with the facts. Many a glorious victory for the blue has been planned as carefully and thoroughly as a general plans a campaign. The second reason, somewhat akin to the first, is found in the hearty co-operation of old foot-ball players among the alumni and their willingness to coach the team toward the end of the season, even...
This year Harvard seems more likely to win the championship than for several years before; and if she does, she will deserve it because of faithful training. But we should not be human if we did not confidently hope that when the sun sets on Thanksgiving Day the blue will still float above the crimson...