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...Yale-Princeton game will be played at New Haven this afternoon at 2 p. m. That the contest is to be spirited and aggressive is well shown by a comparison of the teams' relative strength. Yale places greatest confidence in McBride and in his punting. Princeton, in her ends. Both teams are in excellent physical condition, and are prepared to play hard, fast and scientific football...
...Cregan of Princeton, who won the individual prize, covered the course in 34 minutes and 5 and 2-5 seconds, which beats the record formerly held by Orton of Pennsylvania. A. Grant, captain of the Pennsylvania team, was a close second. Harvard was invited to take part in this contest, but declined owing to the short time which was allowed for training the long distance runners...
...annual football kicking contest is being held at Pennsylvania this week...
...first game of the Harvard and Yale series was played at New Haven, November 13, 1875. Harvard had formed a football club three years before, but the Universities could not agree upon a code of rules to govern the contest. Up to this time, Yale's game had consisted solely in kicking, while Harvard's allowed running with the ball, holding and passing. Yale made a concession and played under rules with which she was unfamiliar. As a result she was beaten, and the score, by the old system, was four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. In this game...
...debate, with a decision, between the Senior Wranglers and the Young Men's Congress of the Boston Y. M. C. A. to take place in about three weeks. The Congress has over a hundred members and contains quite able speakers, so the debate should be a good contest...