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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lehigh's defeat on Wednesday at Bethlehem, of the University of Pennsylvania, virtually gives the state championship to Lehigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/23/1889 | See Source »

...Yale foot ball management has decided not to protest any of the Princeton team. They prefer to play the same team which played Harvard, and stand or fall by the result. Yale men, however, are confident that the Yale eleven can defeat the Princeton team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/21/1889 | See Source »

...first college ready to join her in her stand. The position of some of the graduates, that the time was not opportune for a withdrawal was attacked on the grounds that delay would do no good; a withdrawal would still seem to be a revenge for a defeat and the subject was really so old a one that no one could call a withdrawal at the present time a hasty poorly-considered step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mass Meeting Last Night. | 11/21/1889 | See Source »

...heart. Why was it that our first reverse broke the spirit of the men who were there to cheer for Harvard? But the serious part of the matter is the fact that many men are now ready to tear up their tickets for Springfield because of Saturday's defeat. Just because of that defeat, we ought to send an immense Harvard crowd to Springfield. We must show out team that we have perfect confidence in their ability to win. As the CRIMSON pointed out on Monday, the fault was not in the players, but in the fact that they were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/20/1889 | See Source »

...championship game on Saturday between Princeton and Harvard resulted in an overwhelming victory for Princeton. The most despondent supporters of Harvard did not expect such a defeat, so complete at every point, and the huge score piled up by Princeton seems almost inexplicable. At the end of the first half with the score fifteen to ten in Harvard's favor, prospects seemed bright for a victory; but after Harvard made a safety in the second half the game was decided, for from that time forward Princeton raised the score in a remarkable manner. At only one point in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton, 41; Harvard, 15. | 11/18/1889 | See Source »

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