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Eton College, England.- Foot-ball is in a flourishing condition...
...Freshman foot-ball match with Yale last Saturday was a decided success. The game was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, in the presence of about four hundred people. Our team won the toss and kicked with the sun at their backs...
...REPORT of the Freshman foot-ball match between the Yale and Harvard will be found in another column, but the courteous treatment the visitors met with at New Haven deserves especial mention. The Harvard Freshmen were received on the field with hearty applause, which was repeated frequently during the game. After the match they enjoyed the hospitality of the Yale Freshmen, who gave them a supper, and who entertained, during the evening, all the Harvard men who were in the city...
...foot-ball game with Yale has been definitely settled in a way that will meet the approval of all Harvard men. Captain Cushing recently wrote down to Yale, fixing last Tuesday as the latest date to which he was willing to postpone the final decision about the game. A letter was sent in reply, asking him to meet the Yale captain in New Haven on Tuesday. Accordingly Captain Cushing went to Yale, and tried to arrange a match. Yale urged as her excuse for not playing with a fifteen that she had only eleven men in college who knew...
...noticeable that a greater part of the department for the Fall numbers is given to silly foot-ball matches and other boyish nonsense which make Eastern colleges a laughing-stock in the eyes of sober-minded people. It is all well enough to have a foot-ball game once in a while for a little exercise, but for a number of colleges to take more interest in such things than they do in their studies, is a peculiar product of Eastern superiority. - Michigan Chronicle...