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...Yale over Harvard's victory last Saturday, we are assured, is one of general satisfaction. The college had until then considered Princeton her strongest rival. Now interest is centred in the Harvard game. A large delegation will undoubtedly accompany the team, and the hope is expressed that the contest will be of the most friendly nature. Harvard will be pleased to show every courtesy in her power to her great rival...
Myers and George, the rival runners, have agreed upon a contest, to take place at the Polo Grounds on Thanksgiving...
...line and scored a touchdown for Princeton. The touchdown was too far from the poles to be brought out so a "punt out" was substituted, Peace receiving the ball and holding out for Haxall, who easily scored a goal. For the rest of the first three quarters the contest was intensely exciting, Princeton's kicking and Harvard's tackling and running keeping the ball in the very centre of the field. Eight minutes from the close the Princeton half-back kicked the ball almost streight up, and Mason, darting forward on the full run, took the ball in the midst...
...game of foot - ball last night at the Olympian Club rink between the first elevens of the Chauncy Hall and English High Schools, resulted in a draw, neither eleven winning a goal in a spirited contest of twenty minutes, the time allotted for the game...
Said the young gentleman: "This contest is perpetually renewed. Annually General Butler is to be a candidate. He is beaten today. He will come again, and by-and-by, for mere weariness, the State will accept him. Some dozen years hence, when he has worried everybody to death, he will be found to have a majority...