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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeat by Harvard was the only one which the Dartmouth eleven sustained this fall. A. C. Gildersleeve has been elected captain of the Columbia foot ball team for next year. The authors to be read in English A, the last half year, are Addison, De Foe, Dryden, Pope and Swift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

Finally, I believe that Ninety-three must take every possible chance to defeat Columbia next June. It is safe to predict that after their defeat last June, and in view of a possibility of a dual league between Harvard and Yale, the Columbia managers will make extra efforts to turn out a fast crew; and we have found that they can succeed pretty well when they try. We must assume then that the Columbia freshmen will be as skilful in the use of the oar as our men. Haw can Harvard win? There are two respects in which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to the Freshman Class. | 12/9/1889 | See Source »

...Yale correspondent of the New York Evening Post says that since the defeat by Princeton the majority of the undergraduates at Yale are against withdrawing from the foot ball association. It adds that many influential graduates are in favor of a dual league with Harvard in spite of the defeat by Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/2/1889 | See Source »

...pleasing contrast to the poor success of our university teams in recent years stands the record of victories won by the freshman teams. By defeating the Yale freshman eleven at New Haven Saturday, Ninety-three has added another victory to the long list. The game was played under discouraging circumstances,-on strange grounds and before spectators whose sympathies were almost entirely with the opposing team, and the credit of the victory is, therefore, all the greater. For in spite of the disheartening support received from the class, the freshman eleven played a steady game, not so good a game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/2/1889 | See Source »

...Post contains a letter from a graduate who takes a different view of the foot-ball question from that held by Mr. Codman. The letter admits that the meeting of last week was premature and possibly unjust to Princeton, but denies that it was due to the sting of defeat. After pointing out that unfriendly feeling between Harvard and Princeton did not begin with the foot-ball game the letter describes Harvard's position in the following words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foot-Ball Question. | 11/30/1889 | See Source »

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