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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman play Fall River High School today on Jarvis at 3 p. m. The Fall River team won the high school championship of the state last year and this year has scored an aggregate of 234 points to opponents' none. Every freshman should give the team the support and encouragement of his presence on the field this afternoon...
PLAYED 11. WON 3. LOST...
...publish today the record of the cricket eleven for the past season. Though Harvard lost the intercollegiate championship, and a majority of the games played, the record is on the whole encouraging. The eleven won more games than in 1888, and showed a marked improvement in its play to 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...
...first editorial relates, as the writer says, to the well worn subject of giving cups as prizes in athletic competitions. Prizes naturally lose a good deal of their value if distributed a year or even six months after they have been won, and the principles put forward by the Advocate, that the prizes should be bought before the event, so that every competitor will know that after the event the winner will receive his prize, is an excellent remedy for the evil complained...
...Harvard won her first championship game Saturday afternoon, defeating the University of Pennsylvania by a score of thirty-five to nothing. The teams were as follows...