On the steamboat trip from Montreal to Quebec the voyager meets with many French Canadians going to or returning from market as deck passengers. Being of a lively and social disposition, they while away the time in rude but innocent amusements, to the great entertainment of the other passengers. Sedate priests are often seen among the spectators, evidently thoroughly enjoying the sport. Wrestling matches frequently occur, and our artist furnished a sketch of one of the contests of strength witnessed by him in which a spunky little French Canadian contended against many more formidable opponents, and, although invariably thrown, returned smilingly to the encounter as long as his strength held out.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 23, 1875.

The Princetons Defeat the Wesleyans by Forty-Four Points at the Polo Grounds, New York City. 

The football teams of Princeton and Wesleyan met on Tuesday at the Polo Grounds, New York City, and when the day was done Princeton had forty-four points and Wesleyan none. The game was very interesting and was witnessed by a crowd numbering fully twenty-five hundred persons.

Reprinted from The National Police Gazette, November 24, 1888.