Word: nine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton college nine has arranged to play the New Yorks April 10 and 15; the Athletics, April 3, the Newarks, April 12; the Staten Islands, April 13; the Bergen Points, April 16; the Cuban Giants, April 17; the Detroits. April 20. Games have also been arranged with the University of Pennsylvania, with Rutgers college, and with the Jaspers of Manhattan college...
Arthur Irwin of the Philadelphia league team has been engaged to train the Dartmouth nine next spring...
...manner of scattering the fertilizer over the grass, or in piteous appeals to be protected by the authorities from the muckers who assemble in the rectangle and throw out doubtful compliments to the editors as they walk along. Occasionally, also, the Advocate informs the eleven or the nine that if they can play well enough they will win, provided they don't get over confident; and tells the captain of the lacrosse team that if he keeps his head he will have a soft thing. When these articles appear the college smiles and tolerates the paper. But when this infantile...
...will be benefited by the cage, one committee to have charge of the construction of the building, and the other to raise the necessary funds. The committees are made up as follows: on the building committee the president of the Athletic and Foot Ball Associations, the captain of the nine, and the president of the BaseBall Association; on the finance committee, the treasurers of the BaseBall, FootBall and Athletic Associations, the university treasurer, and the captain of the eleven. The graduates have been at so great an expense in improving the varsity grounds that it is not thought fair...
During the past football season the Lehigh eleven lost but three games, and scored 385 points against her opponents' eighty-nine...