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...cricket eleven are requested to be on the cricket field at 3 P. M. today, in order to practice for the match game with the Lawrence Cricket Club tomorrow...
...York to organize teams and form an association. Yale, Amherst and other colleges have taken up the sport, which bids fair to have a bright future. Feeders to college teams in the shape of lacrosse clubs at the preparatory schools will prove of value in entering the field ready for play instead of being obliged to develop a team from crude material. In every college and school there are those who, not interested in base-ball and other sports, are attracted by lacrosse. As matters now look, Harvard will have a strong team this year, and will endeavor to maintain...
...Varsity Eleven played a practice game of foot-ball on Holmes Field Saturday afternoon with a team composed mostly of graduates. The weather was favorable foor good playing, and the game should have been very lively; but for some reason or other the play was slow and quite uninteresting. The 'Varsity won with a score of one goal and six touch-downs to nothing for the graduates...
Vigorous opposition is being made in Cambridge to any plan for fencing in Jarvis Field. The Cambridge Tribune says: "The college students desire to shut up Jarvis Field with a lofty fence so that they may realize more money by athletic exhibitions. As the border streets are narrow and the intended fences would stand close to the side-walks, the necessary effect would be to sadly injure the neighboring houses, to destroy their southern outlook, deprive them of most of their summer air and give a gloomy aspect to the lower front rooms; so that the taxes would have...
...following criticisms on the Harvard team, from the Yale News, will be of interest: "The Harvard team on the practice field are doing some excellent work. Especially is this noticeable in the passing and running. Passes are made from one side to the other in magnificent style, and their running and dodging are also very fine. The kicking is light, and not very sure, though they are somewhat strengthened by the fine kicking of the full back. The team as a whole seem to be afraid of falling on the ball, and thus often make bad fumbles which...