Word: won
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...York as guests of the Harvard Club of that city. The occasion was the monthly meeting of the club and the intention of the entertainers was to show the undergraduate players that the graduates at New York were not less enthusiastic in their good wishes towards those who had won a victory for Harvard than the undergraduates at Cambridge. Indeed it seemed to the fortunate guests that the college feeling was rather intensified that diminished by time, so hearty was the greeting of grey haired men who in their college days had never seen a foot ball...
...their ideas of foot ball from newspapers. He congratulated all Harvard men that they had proven the sport to be worthy of the best efforts of gentlemen. But, he added "one swallow does not make a summer," and he hoped that the hard work and enthusiasm which had won the victory were but an example to urge future generations of students to earn success by the same means...
...Beaman said that as one of the overseers of the University he could offer Mr. Cumnock and his compeers most hearty thanks that they had won a game of foot ball through fair play and superior methods. He added most earnest thanks to those who had done what the frequenters of games between Yale and Princeton had never expected to see,-they had played against powerful opponents a game which was not disgraced by a single ungentlemanly act. As long as our athletics were conducted in this spirit we might be sure that our teams were backed by the best...
...Christmas number of Scribner's contains the metrical version of the 29th ode of the third book of Horace, by Miss Helen Read, which won the Sargent prize...
Last year when Princeton won the foot ball championship she showed her gratitude to her team by presenting each member of it a little gold foot ball with appropriate inscriptions...