Word: contest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week from next Saturday the Harvard Athletic Association is to send a team to New Haven to enter the athletic meeting to be held in that city. The result of this meeting will be watched with great interest, because it will be in many ways an inter-collegiate contest, since men from various colleges, notably Yale and Harvard, will enter the events...
...SEELYE, Sec.H. A. A.- A contest will be held in the gymnasium Wednesday evening, Feb. 22, in the running high jump, pole vault, putting the shot, and mile walk. This contest is to decide upon the men to be sent to New Haven on the 2d and 3d of March. It is hoped by the management that the fellows will show their interest by a large attendance both of contestants and spectators...
...Yale's champion high kicker, has entered the hitch and kick contest. Wason, of Technology, will also enter. The running high jump will have entries from Harvard, Technology and the Union and Association gymnasiums. Wason, of Tech, is said to be able to jump 5 ft. 6 in. Tickets for the games are now on sales at Music Hall. The medals are on exhibition at the corner of Winter and Washington streets, Boston. The probabilities are that the games will be of great interest to college men and amateur athletics generally...
...abandon the races at New London for such a reason. Let every man imagine to himself how he would feel if the Executive Committee were obliged to send a letter to Yale saying that, in consequence of lack of financial support, Harvard would be forced to withdraw from the contest on the Thames! We are sure that there are men in the University who have not subscribed a cent towards the expenses of the crew. Will not some feeling of pride, or of shame, stir these men and prompt them to give as much as they can afford for this...
...large number of entries have been made for the sparring championship contest to be held in Music Hall, Boston, Feb. 27. Entries have been sent from Cambridge, Wakefield, Roslindale and Portsmouth, N. H. A great deal of interest has been manifested by the amateur sparrers of Boston, and each gymnasium will be represented by several men. The sparring weights are 125, 140 and 160 pounds limit for the feather, middle and lightweights. Only amateurs will be admitted to the competition. They entry book will be open till Friday, February 24, and all applications should be sent to the sectary...