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...cents admission to go towards buying balls, and, if there should be a sufficient number of entries, providing a second prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...NUMBER of graduates who are interested in the future of our University Crew have decided to discuss the boating interests of the College at a dinner in Boston. As this dinner has been unavoidably postponed until next Tuesday, the meeting of the H. U. B. C. in Holden has been deferred until Wednesday evening of next week. Former members of the 'Varsity will be present, and Mr. Roberts, the Treasurer, will give a detailed statement of the financial condition of the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...took place at Springfield, Wednesday, October 9. A telegram from Columbia announced that they would not be present, and would probably have no team this fall. While waiting for the arrival of the Yale delegates, who did not appear till 3.30, Harvard and Princeton discussed the subjects of the number of men to compose a team, fifteen or eleven; and how many touchdowns should equal a goal, if any. Some points in the rules were changed, where the meaning was not sufficiently clear. It was agreed to play fifteen men, to have four touchdowns equal a goal; but in case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL CONVENTION. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...past season has been in the matter of sports of all kinds, the most successful that this country has ever known, and has also been remarkable for the number of important events that have come up for decision. May next year see as flourishing a condition of athletic affairs of all kinds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...Henley "redounds to the glory of our common country," still the sentiment among college men is that the Columbia boys have done a big thing. They do not enjoy the advantages for exercise and training that some more favored seats of learning possess, and they have a comparatively small number of rowing-men to choose from; but in the face of these difficulties, with the support of a large number of wealthy and liberal graduates, and with Mr. Jasper Goodwin to push matters, they have imitated the action taken by Harvard in '69, and have improved upon the example. Some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/27/1878 | See Source »