Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Rovers football team will play their second match game of the season at the Union grounds this afternoon, their opponents being the Fall River Rovers, the champion team of America. They are to play against the Newark Almas for the American association challenge cup, and the Boston Rovers will have to do good work to hold their own with them. The kick-off will be at 4.30 o'clock...
...executive committee of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America, Wednesday night, reinstated Malcolm W. Ford of the New York Athletic Club, who was disqualified about a year ago for competing for money at Springfield, Mass., under an assumed name...
...been proposed to have an international foot-ball contest between England and America, and have the English eleven, which is now on its way to Australia, come to New York, and play the winning team in the Yale, Harvard and Princeton League...
...When it is impracticable to build a scaffolding on account of the currents, the bridge is built from each end so as to meet in the middle. The ends are balanced by piers near the shore and anchored firmly on the shore. The most common form of bridge in America is the straight Warren girder bridge. In Europe, the single bow-string bridge, arched on one side, and the double bow-string bridge, arched both top and bottom, are more common. The lecturer concluded by showing photographs of a large number of bridges, including those at Brooklyn, Harlem, Poughkeepsie...
...plans which were discussed so much last year, in regard to an international boat race between representative college crews from England and America, have started projects for a series of foot-ball matches. It is now proposed to have the English eleven, which is now en route to Australia, extend its trip to New York. If it has the success expected in Australia it is more than probable that it will visit America and play the winner of the Harvard, Princeton and Yale League. The games would be governed by rules which are a compromise between the English Rugby...