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...teams quickly changed goals and the ball was faced again. After fifteen minutes of spirited play, during which the defence fields of both teams exchanged a number of long throws, the ball fell into the hands of our attack who for the first time tipped back and forth in their effective team play and secured a goal swiped by Blodgett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 5/18/1886 | See Source »

Monday morning was pleasant, and the nine left Springfield at 9.10 o'clock for Northampton. Here they were joined by more Harvard men, who swelled the number of supporters to fifteen. From Northampton, all drove to Amherst in carriages. After reaching their destination the throng of supporters amused themselves with viewing the sights of the town until lunch was served at twelve o'clock. Then the clouds began to come up, and at the time game was called, at two o'clock, the weather was very threatening. Amherst went first to the bat, and scored three runs in the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Grand Fiasco. | 5/11/1886 | See Source »

Lacrosse started off finely in the first part of the season, and for a time it seemed as though Yale would be able to enter the league this year. From the fifty that at first practiced daily at Hamilton Park, the number of players decreased to fifteen. But the best players were the ones to continue in practice, and a lacrosse twelve of a good deal of merit was organized. The first game was played on May 1st at Princeton, and resulted in a defeat for Yale of four goals to nothing. Of the men that compose the team, eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter from Yale. II. | 5/10/1886 | See Source »

...referee, Mr. E. S. Abbot, '87, placed the ball at 5 o'clock. It soon went to the Cambridge end of the field, but the tries for goal were wild and Harvard failed to score. At the end of fifteen minutes the Cambridge attack secured the ball, and after some clever passing Crocker threw a goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 5/3/1886 | See Source »

Harvard's attack field failed to pull itself together for the remaining fifteen minutes and the half closed with the score 1 to 0 in favor of the visitors. The defence play was very steady throughout the half, Williams play being particularly good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 5/3/1886 | See Source »

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