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...Turf, Field and Farm will offer an international cup, to be rowed for in August next. Ten men, including Hanlan and Lee, will contest for the prize, under the London Sportsman rules...
...novel contest took place Oct. 8 in San Francisco, Cal., between the Olympics and the Featherstone-Adams amateurs. Nine innings were played, the Olympic players using only their left hands. The game resulted...
...some fine playing was seen. But the freshmen did not come forward as had been hoped, and, owing to several causes, the games did not arouse as much general interest as could have been wished. It may be doubted whether the fall is the best season for a contest of this sort. The athletic interest of the college is then centred in other things, and, moreover, the weather is not usually so favorable to good play then as in the spring. If a second series of class games could be arranged for the earlier part of the spring season, with...
...goal otherwise kicked." Next Saturday the Harvard freshmen will play at Andover. The result of the game will be looked forward to with considerable interest, as, in a measure, indicative of the strength of Harvard's freshman team as compared with Yale's. After so close a contest between Yale and Andover on Saturday, our team may expect an exciting game for next Saturday. Let the class give its support to the team and attend the game as generally as possible...
...action on the part of college authorities in prohibiting college nines from playing with professional teams cannot be too strongly commended. No college man can possibly derive any satisfaction from seeing his nine in contest with the professional "knights of the diamond." The whole tendency of the practice is degrading and entirely contrary to the spirit and purpose of college athletics. - [Brunonian...