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...among the latter the one of John Harvard, recently unveiled, your correspondent strolled over to Jarvis Field, the seene of so many hard fought athletic contests, in which Princeton men have participated. Here he found the 'Varsity foot ball team hard at work with the Freshmen eleven. At first sight he was struck with the disparity in size between the men who compose this year's eleven and those of the former years. The playing of the team, as a whole, lacked unity. Every man seems to play for himself. This is especially noticeable among the forwards. The great fault...
...phrase goes elsewhere than at Eton, keeping it as much between his feet as possible. To see a skilled player do this at top speed, winding in and out among his opponents, with the ball never more than a foot or two away from him, is a pretty sight, and it is prettier still to watch him "running it down the line" with all the players crowding round him on the watch for a "rouge;" as an enthusiastic Etonian has been heard to observe, "it is the poetry of football!" A "rouge" is won when the ball passes behind...
...forming on Charles street, we joined the main line on Marlborough street. We shouted ourselves hoarse for '87, for the ladies, and for the tattooed man of the white plume. At the South End we got stuck in the mud and had not our eyes at this instance caught sight of an orange and black '87 banner flying before us in the hands of some young lady admirers, there is no doubt that many a gallant warrior would have fallen behind in the hands of Pharisees and Mugwumps to be brought before that terrible tribunal the "Executive Committee...
...thim's students, thank hivens I ain't had no education," was the remark of an old Irishman as the prosession of '80 came in sight. Others, however, did not regard the students with such disfavor. "The sidewalks," according to the college paper, "were lined with beautiful young ladies of Boston's first families;" and they greeted the procession with every demonstration of approval. Sixty-five handkerchiefs, one black shawl, and various pieces of hats is the current Crimson's estimate of the more tangible marks of maidenly favor con ferried. This procession of '80 was The largest and best...
...island for two weeks, and from fifteen to twenty races were held. The races were uniformity attended with great excitement, as all the leading clubs of the country were well represented; and the sailing races, in one of which there were over thirty canoes entered, made a remarkably pretty sight...