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Harvard-Yale lacrosse game on Saturday. If Yale wins, Harvard, Princeton and Yale will be tied for first place. - [News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1883 | See Source »

...Rood, of Columbia, and Hamilton, of Yale, were thrown down. Rood took the lead followed closely by Hamilton. The other competitors again mounted their machines and followed as best they could. Despite the evident unfairness of this, they were allowed to finish the race. Reed of Columbia took third place. On the second lap Reed passed Hamilton and drew up on Rood. On the third lap he passed Rood but Rood spurted and again took first place, but on the home stretch Reed again passed him, winning in in 6 minutes 53 1-5 seconds, with Rood second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC MEETING. | 5/28/1883 | See Source »

...undoubtedly due to the wretched inefficiency of the umpires and referee furnished by Yale. The following men played for Yale: McDowell, Cottell, Ayers, Lincoln, Connell, McCormick, McHenry, Bertron, Rollins, Mallon, Twombly and Spencer. The Harvard team was the same as in the Princeton game, except that Goodale played in place of Machado, who unfortunately was unable to play. Game was called soon after three o'clock, and the ball was kept near Yale's goal most of the time for half an hour, but owing to the sharpness of Yale's defence no goals were scored. Two or three minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE. | 5/28/1883 | See Source »

...meeting of the Union Amateur Athletic Association held in Boston on Saturday, F. S. Billings, '85, won the first heat of the 100-yards dash, in which he was handicapped by four men at distances from one to seven yards, and won second place in the final heat in which the handicaps were from one to six yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/28/1883 | See Source »

...dinner of the Institute of 1770 will take place tonight, at 7.30, at Young's Hotel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTICE. | 5/28/1883 | See Source »