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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...touch-down some distance to the right of the goal. Seamans tried a place-kick, but (for the first time in a match, we believe) failed to kick it over. The Canadians now made a desperate rally, and following up their long drop-kicks with good running and tackling, kept the ball uncomfortably near Harvard's goal for nearly the rest of the game, but when time was called they had failed to score, while Harvard had added another touch-down. It should be stated, however, that the game was played with the understanding that goals alone should count. There...
...Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College, began a series of journeys for the sake of vacation recreation. These excursions he kept up for a number of years, and visited at one time or another nearly every town in New England and many in New York. At about the same period he became curious to know the manner in which New England appeared eighty or a hundred years before his time. He was unable to find any information such as he searched for. He was led to think, therefore, that those who lived eighty or a hundred years after him might...
...four-oared race there were four entries. The inside crew took the lead and kept it to the finish. It was made up as follows...
DOGS cannot be brought or kept in any room in a college building, or in Dolton's or Little's blocks, or the dormitory with the hideous name...
...postponed until after the next event, which was the half-mile run. The contestants were Messrs. F. Cunningham, L. S., and J. Swift, '79. At the start Swift took the lead and made the quarter in 1.9 1/4 sec., closely followed by Cunningham. During the second quarter the men kept close together until they were a hundred yards from home, when Cunningham slipped and fell, leaving Swift to come in in 2.24 1/4; the time last fall being...