Word: yales
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stands were practically all filled at 1.45. A slight haze partially obscured the sun, and the wind blew lightly across the field from the south. The afternoon was excellent for football, but in spite of the gray overcoat and dark cloaks there was considerable color on the Harvard and Yale stands. The field was hard and freshly marked out. A great number of people came out by way of Western avenue and Allston. The band had special seats within the enclosure, at the southwest corner of the field, and played familiar and inspiring Harvard airs. When Governor Roosevelt entered...
...Harvard team came on the field at 2 o'clock amid great enthusiasm, and the Yale team followed immediately and was well received. Harvard won the toss and faced the east goal...
Although little more than a week remains before the Yale game, the Freshmen have not lately shown much improvement in team play. Next week, however, the men will be coached individually and collectively by members of the University eleven, and a decided change for the better is expected...
...than any preceding number this year. But it is prevented from being uniformly excellent by the pointless and offensive looking blot which is entitled "A short guide to Harvard University." The editorials are perhaps the best literary contributions, although the Irishman's point of view in "McGinnis at the Yale game," an imitation of Mr. Dooley, is amusing and ends pointedly. The editorial on the distribution of Yale game tickets lacks the overdone tone of previous ones and is timely, but might be improved by the omission of the play on a word in the last sentence. The Yale game...
...mass meeting of Yale students held last Tuesday night, all the property of the undergraduate athletic association, including the Yale field and boathouse, was turned over to the President and Fellows of Yale. The New York graduates have agreed to raise $8000, the amount necessary to pay off the debt on the Yale field, so that it can be transferred free of debt. This transfer of property was made in order to get rid of the existing friction between undergraduate managers, and also to lesson expenses by placing all the various managers' departments under charge of a single graduate secretary...