Lafayette College : Some pages of its past, pictures of its present, and forecasts of its future . oplay out definite schedules of games, mostly against profes-sional nines. The first recorded baseball game against an-other college was one against Lehigh in 1872, which re-sulted in an easy victory for Lafayette. Football was for a long time played only between 1882 occurred the first contest with another college, Lafay-ette winning by a large score in a game with Rutgers. Boating has never taken hold at Lafayette, probably on ac-count of the great expense, as the facilities here for
Lafayette College : Some pages of its past, pictures of its present, and forecasts of its future . oplay out definite schedules of games, mostly against profes-sional nines. The first recorded baseball game against an-other college was one against Lehigh in 1872, which re-sulted in an easy victory for Lafayette. Football was for a long time played only between 1882 occurred the first contest with another college, Lafay-ette winning by a large score in a game with Rutgers. Boating has never taken hold at Lafayette, probably on ac-count of the great expense, as the facilities here for this sportare admirable. In 1880 the first track meet was held, and in a short timeLafayette had won several intercollegiate prizes in this depart-ment. At present the track event of the year is the annualcontest with Lehigh University. Having once begun, the interest in intercollegiate athleticsgrew rapidly, and by 1890 there were regularly organized anduniformed teams playing elaborate schedules in baseball andfootball, and taking part in many collegiate and intercollegi-ate field
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