Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Football debt from last year...
...Baseball association which has a debt of $413.25 due to the falling off in receipts from the Yale games and the reduction in the price of season tickets from $5 to $2.50, comes a short summary of the affairs of the Boat club: The expenses during the last college year were $10,076.17, of which $3.496 was paid for a new steam-launch an unusual expense, which was met chiefly by graduate subscriptions; $880 went for new boats, and $500 for the for the tank in which the crews practice rowing during the winter. The total receipts of the season...
...only grown in popular favor, but there has been a marked improvement in the general playing. The scores made in the intercollegiate league show this development in the playing of all the teams, and a tendency on the part of all to play an aggressive game. Last year the winning elevens, in almost every case, shut out their opponents, and Yale did not have a point scored against her during the entire season; but this year the stronger teams have not been able to prevent the weaker ones from scoring, and the following schedule of points scored shows that...
...Week's Sport, in an interesting summary of the season's work, says: The style of play has not materially altered from that of last season, except that kicking has become more popular and effective. Last year it was the common practice never to kick until forced by the third down; this year many a good punt has been put in at the second down, and some even at the first. The tackling has improved, and there are today almost no poor tacklers on any of the association teams. The running would not have been by any means able...
...having the ball and hence to slugging; and that it has not been made necessary by the natural growth of the game, but is a radical departure from the true theory of the game. In the face of this it cannot be denied that the game has this year been comparatively free form slugging, and it may be doubted whether with a competent umpire this disagreeable feature would be any more characteristic of the game as played this year than as played in previous years. It is also true that interference has added much to the interest of the game...