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...response to a question from the floor, it was stated that the coming convention will take no action upon the awarding of the championship, inasmuch as by the decision of the referee, which is final, the game at New York was declared a draw, and in accordance with this decision there is no official championship this year. After some further desultory discussion the meeting was adjourned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 12/11/1884 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, though the figures shown at the close of the afternoon's work were fairly creditable. The matches of yesterday were of importance, being the last competition but one in the current series; the result of the shooting serving to show approximately how the chances stand on the final award of prizes. Everything went satisfactorily with the exception, perhaps, of the glass ball match, in shooting which the men were annoyed by being compelled to shoot directly towards the sun. This trouble will be obviated at the next meeting by changing the ball trap to another pit. The final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Shot Gun. | 12/4/1884 | See Source »

...custom be discontinued now and hereafter. We hope you will give the matter due thought, and arrive at the same conclusion we have. Under the circumstances, therefore, we do not approve your employing Mr. Bancroft as coach. We are, however, as you know, simply an advisory committee, and the final decision of this question rests with the faculty committee on athletics, to whom you should refer it again if you now wish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/1/1884 | See Source »

...more day, the Wednesday immediately before Thanksgiving. If you prevail with your Athletic Faculty to let you play, we can play the morning of that Wednesday. We must play then if at all, as any other day after is entirely out of the question. This is our final answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trying to Settle a Date. | 11/22/1884 | See Source »

...perfectly tangible reality, "Harvard indifference," cannot yet have brought its enervating influence to bear upon the members of '88, and they are not called upon to display as yet, the wonted apathy with regard to all athletic matters. It is to '88 that the college must look for a final effort against a clear score of defeats. The past year has been the most disastrous to Harvard of any during the entire history of college sports. In foot ball, lacrosse, base ball, rowing, and tennis, we have met signal and crushing defeat. It was with the utmost difficulty that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/19/1884 | See Source »