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...Yale Courant prophesies victory for the blue in the foot-ball contest this fall. The Yale News, however, admits, in regard to foot-ball, that "the situation is desperate...
Yale freshmen have no right to sit on the Chapel street fence except as a reward for beating the Harvard freshmen in an athletic contest. It is a pleasant fence, commanding an unhindered view of one of the fairest and most delightfully frequented thoroughfares in New Haven, and offers to the members of the higher classes many of the advantages of a well-situated club house. The freshmen, the other day, after beating the sophomores by four to three at a game of base-ball, raided this fence and sat upon it, heedless of the indefensible unusualness...
...great final tug-of-war between the freshman and sophomore classes was held on the campus Saturday afternoon. The heavy, middle, and light weight teams were each to pull three heats, the best 5 out of 9 deciding the contest. The freshmen succeeded in winning 5 out of 7 heats, and therefore the remaining two heats were not pulled, as the freshmen had already won the contest. - Cornell...
...date of the fall tennis tournament has at last been fixed. We hope that this tournament will not be a repetition of that of last year, as no one can take any interest in a contest that drags on for two or three weeks. We have been assured by some of the directors that the whole thing can be finished in about three days if the play is brisk. While this is almost too much to hope for, we do think that a week ought to be sufficient; but this rests entirely with the students, and they should remember, that...
...field a strong twelve, many of whose members played upon the team which last year brought to Cambridge the double championship, that of the inter-collegiate association and of the United States. While the match of this afternoon must not be looked upon in the light of an international contest, yet it will prove unusually interesting, and will afford the college a chance to be present at a game of lacrosse "as is lacrosse." Naturally enough the probabilities are that the Montreal men will score a victory, for their summer practice cannot fail to tell against the three months...