Word: canada
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effect- on the football team would be strictly analogous. They would be prevented from playing elevens from Canada, as these would be amateur organizations, or would come from colleges not represented in the association...
...census of sporting men and athletes has been taken in Canada, and the yield is 15,000 lacrosse players, 5,000 curlers, 2,000 foot-ball players, 1,000 rowing men, 1,000 base-ballists, 1,000 bicyclists, and 1,000 given to other sports...
...hoped that victory will fall to the lot of our American team. Nor is this unlikely. The playas in this country have had considerable instruction from old Canadians now resident here, and one or two of the men most likely to go have lived and played the game in Canada itself...
...course of a reply to an address from McGill University recently, the governor-general of Canada stated that he was struck by the obvious desire of the authorities to spread their advantages as widely as possible over Canada; not to make them the privilege of the few and wealthy. In this way they were not following the old English universities, but those which had left on the Scottish character an impress which was ineffaceable, and which had contributed to place Scotsmen in the foremost place in every country they visited. He was also struck by the elasticity of their system...
...freshman class of Cornell University has representatives from Russia, Spain, Brazil, Central America, Germany, Australia, and Canada...