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...crowd been seen on an Exeter campus. The four or five thousand spectators showed how much confidence each side placed in its eleven. It seemed, however as if Andover realized that cool, steady work alone would win the game, while Exeter did not wake up to the fact that defeat was possible until it was too late to make any essential difference in the score. Andover cheered lustily even when success seemed to be leaving her, but no sooner had the tables turned, when a spirit of despondency seized both Exeter students and players and the result was utter defeat...
...beginning of the season the sophomore eleven was rated as the weakest of the class teams. But the candidates for the team went to work with a will and succeeded in winning their first game. It was generally thought, however, that it was useless for them to hope to defeat either the juniors or the seniors. But in spite of this the men kept faithfully to their work; best of all they have worked not only with the body but with the head, and the result was seen in yesterday's game. The sophomores gave the most beautiful exhibition...
...brought Mr. Storey to his final proposition namely the possibility of the vast number of the better class of both Democrats and Republicans, who agrees in the main of holding independent conventions to protest against the candidates of the party before country principle. Such action, he said, alone would defeat the nomination of insignificant and corrupt men in place of the men of ability and high principle. Unless some such action as this shall be taken in New York there is but little doubt but that the influence of Hillism and Tammany will defeat Mr. Cleveland's nomination...
...freshman class must give its eleven better support than it has up to this time. The Yale freshman eleven is playing a remarkably strong game. It will take a very good team to defeat it, and our freshmen must not fail through lack of loyal and enthusiastic support. The members of the class should not only attend the scheduled games of their eleven, but they should go out and watch the practice of the candidates. It is encouragement of this sort which will keep the team working hard all the time; and hard work is all that will...
...feature of the game was the pitching and batting of Young for Princeton, and the playing of Calhoun for Yale. The whole story of Yale's defeat lies in their weakness at the bat; the whole explanation of Princeton's victory lies in their sharp hitting and in Young's good right arm; for Young was far more effective than Bowers, the Yale pitcher. The score by innings was as follows...