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...Globe says: "For the closeness of the contest and the large number of hounds covering the entire distance, the hare and hounds run was unparalleled in the history of the Harvard Bicycle Club. Captain Smith has every reason to congratulate himself on the successful result of his efforts...
...first class contest in which the freshmen find themselves interested is the football game with Yale, '87. In preparation for this the class has already begun work. Players of the game have appeared on the field trying for positions and already it seems that from this material several good men are to be chosen. But this is not enough. Weight and strength combined with skill in football as experience has shown will surely defeat a moderately skillful team unaided by these other qualifications. Therefore we hope the captain will call upon all men in the class, old players...
...Boston, one of the best twelves in the country, next Saturday, on Jarvis, by way of practice for the Oelrichs tournament at New York the following week. Immediately preceding Saturday's game will occur the throwing competitions, at which we hinted some time since. The conditions of the contest are to be as follows: Any student of the university may take part. Each contestant to deposit as an entrance fee 50 cents for each event for which he proposes to try, to H. M. Williams Secretary, 39 Thayer, before 10 P. M., next Friday, the fees to be returned...
...although many of our best players left college with '83, we were able to retain the championship won last year by Mr. Clark and Mr. Taylor. The only complaint the association can make is in regard to the attendance or rather lack of attendance of Harvard sympathizers at the contest. While every play of the men from other colleges is applauded by a hundred or more of their classmates, the representatives of Harvard are obliged to play without a sign of approval. We hope that in another year the state of affairs will be different...
...contest was merely for the honor, as no prizes were awarded, it being left to the victorious college to award its own prizes. Harvard, as well as the other colleges, owes its thanks to Trinity for the hospitable reception tendered the various representatives while at Hartford...