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...game was called, Exeter kicking off. The ball was quickly carried up to Harvard's goal only to be borne back by brilliant runs and good kicking on the part of '86. Ennis of the Harvard eleven was injured in the ankle after a fine run, and his place was ably filled by Littaner. The first three quarters ended with one touchdown for the freshmen...
...hall as it had heretofore been filled. But two causes conspired to make him short of waiters when October came, and so forced him to engage new men whom he knew nothing about, and who therefore, some of them, naturally turned out to be incompetent. In the first place, the proprietors of Young's Hotel, which has this summer been enlarged, hired some forty men waiters; and as they pay much higher wages than Memorial can afford to pay, they succeeded in getting some of the best of those waiters whom Mr. Fred Balch had already engaged for this winter...
...Advocate's wholesale abuse of the steward is entirely uncalled for. The corporation would have dismissed Mr. Balch long ago if they had not known that they could get no better man to fill his place...
...shall look after the men engaged particularly in field sports, and shall be a regular part of the college, not hired by separate men. By a thorough investigation of these particular branches of athletics he will be much better prepared, it is said, than a regular trainer, whose place he will amply fill, but with a more theoretical understanding of his department. If this plan is carried, as we firmly believe it will be in the near future, we shall be much better off than formerly, and instead of giving way to the least doubt, our athletes can settle down...
...Yale News states that in the game of lacrosse which took place between the Princeton and Yale teams Saturday, the spectators were treated to an interesting and exciting, although not altogether satisfactory exhibition of lacrosse playing. The running and passing of the Yale men was good, and in most of the scrimmages which occurred they gained the ball, but these advantages were more than offset by the superiority of Princeton in throwing. During the first inning the ball was at the Yale end of the ground more than two-thirds of the time, and finally, just before time was called...