Word: contest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems clear that athletics are likely to remain an important element in the education, etc., of our universities. This or that branch of contest may be modified or even abandoned. Foot-ball may be so qualified that in no possible event can personal in jury to an opponent be made an advantage. It may even be decided that the boat races are on the whole too expensive-offering no opportunity for pecuniary return from the spectators-and too exacting of the crew, by their over-long course of training, and by excluding them from the festivities and graduation events...
With those premises we cesire to submit that the future of athletics at Harvard and Yale will be best assured if hereafter all championships and matches, in which they engage, are confined to the representatives of these two leading universities. Many friends of these contests in both universities have been hoping for a time when such a result could be properly accomplished, without exposing one or the other college to the charge of escaping from a superior. Two years ago a race was lost at New London to Columbia. The defeat was retrieved last year. Since the old fifteen...
...admittedly authentic information before anything of an adverse nature was even considered by them. The result was favorable. The Yale and Harvard base-ball teams met on more friendly terms than they ever had before, and indications pointed to a continuance of the good feeling begun in the contest for that championship; but either the chill of fall weather or the strength of the Harvard eleven has blasted the feeble growth which the spring had nurtured so tenderly, and now strife has returned...
...congratulate the freshmen on the success of their eleven at New Haven. The men should be commended for their obedience in following the admirable precedent set by ninety. They have now made an excellent showing in their first appearance in inter-collegiate contest, and it is to be hoped that this success will only stimulate the class to add two more victories in the spring and thus win an unrivalled record. Too much praise cannot be given to the team for their splendid work Saturday. The game was won in spite of the odds which Harvard had to face...
...Woomer, H. M. Paul: 3, S. C. Brackett, W. C. Green, C. W. Spencer. J. O. Powers, B. A. Gould, K. Brown, T. W. Balch. Each player will play one game with every other in his section, and the players making the two highest scores in each section will contest in the final rounds. All games in the sectional play must be finished by December 10, and players are urged to begin at once. It is hoped that special rooms may be secured for the tournament, but in the meantime players can arrange time and place for themselves. Full scores...