Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grandfather Merryman: or a Friend in Need: A. E. Aldrich. O. B. Zell, Springfield, Ohio...
Delegates from Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth and Trinity colleges, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stevens Institute of Hoboken, N. J., met at Springfield Tuesday and organized a new foot-ball association. Representatives were present from Williams and Tufts colleges, but a motion inviting them to help organize the new association being lost, they refused to apply for admission. The new organization will be called the Eastern Foot-ball Association, and two meetings a year will be held, on the first Wednesday in October and December. A constitution presented by W. F. Morgan, jr., of Trinity, was adopted with some modifications, which...
...Sanborr, '86, is the New England editor of the Springfield Republican...
...they spent the night. On Saturday the morning was rainy, and as there were no signs of clearing, it was decided at twelve o'clock that there would be no game. So at 3.12 p.m. the nine and half a dozen supporters took up the line of march for Springfield, where they spent Saturday night and Sunday at the Massasoit House. Saturday evening the enthusiastic travellers went to the theatre and helped to fill the small house. The performance, "May Blossom." was the source of much "innocent merriment," and the renowned artiste, Miss Georgia Cayvan in title role, gained much...
Monday morning was pleasant, and the nine left Springfield at 9.10 o'clock for Northampton. Here they were joined by more Harvard men, who swelled the number of supporters to fifteen. From Northampton, all drove to Amherst in carriages. After reaching their destination the throng of supporters amused themselves with viewing the sights of the town until lunch was served at twelve o'clock. Then the clouds began to come up, and at the time game was called, at two o'clock, the weather was very threatening. Amherst went first to the bat, and scored three runs in the first...