Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of Harvard, in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Football League, is justified. To put on teams players who are not bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
From the present prospect the attendance at the Yale-Harvard game will be even larger than heretofore expected. Excursions have been arranged from Boston, New York, and every city and town near Springfield. A special drawing-room train of ten coaches will run from New York to Springfield on the day of the game and all the different New England colleges and schools are applying for seats on the grand stand...
...ward the end of the spring. Since all the old players, with a single exception, will be candidates next year, we may hope for a much stronger showing in 1890. The team will probably be no longer handicapped by lack of grounds for practice, as there is a good prospect of their obtain part of the college athletic fields next spring. The lack of a suitable place for playing has always been a serious drawback to the eleven, and has checked new men from coming out. With steady practice on good grounds, many old players and the large number...
...Fall Handicap games of the Columbia A. A., last Friday, five first prizes were won by men who have never before won a prize in athletics at Columbia. As very few of Columbia's crack athletes have left college the prospect for the intercollegiate games is encouraging...
This year marks the beginning of two important organizations in the University, the Andover and Exeter clubs, which hold their last meeting this week. Filling a place of undoubted usefulness, they have started out with every prospect of success and give promise of prosperity and enlarged influence in the future. We hope that next year. already placed on a successful basis, they will be able to wield an enlarged usefulness for Harvard in the schools which they represent...