Word: contest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the reason why Andover forfeited the games with our eleven lay in the fact that she was persuaded by certain friends that the Harvard eleven favored Exeter and would smash the life out of Andover in order to give the former school a better chance in the contest with the latter. Such a report as this deserves no refutation, but the cause of it is perhaps deeper than would appear at first glance. That athletic boys are persuaded to renounce their choice in choosing a college is well known, but this means appears...
...Yale foot-ball team is just now in desperate straits, and if it wins either the Harvard or Princeton games it will surpass the expectations of its supporters. The injury to Captain Beecher, coming as it does alomst on the eve of the contest with the men from Jersey, is a very critical one, and if it does not deprive Yale of the championship it will at least injure the chances greatly. Beecher cannot play for a week at least, and even if he recovers sufficiently to play in the game with Princeton on the 19th, he will be under...
...which could compete with these. This has been accomplished. Everything which is learned from now on ought to make our chances even of winning at least one of the games. We can look forward to this, and from all appearances there is little to make us discouraged for our contest with Yale, even if beaten by Princeton. The men played earnestly and well on Saturday and deserve the congratulations of the college...
...might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard could be entered into whereby the winner of the race between them should be guaranteed funds sufficient for the international contest; and, on the other hand, if Oxford and Cambridge would make a contract with...
...contest, it should be remembered, is by no means a settled fact as yet, and many unforeseen circumstances may arise which will cause the project to be abandoned. It is expected that an effort will soon be made to collect the needed funds from the alumni, and all arrangements will be made by a graduate committee, who will probably act in conjunction with a committee of boating men to be elected by the undergraduates.- Globe...