Search Details

Word: contest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Yesterday afternoon the second eleven played the regular Technology team on the Union Grounds in Boston. Harvard won, but the contest was very loose and devoid of interesting plays. The make-up of the team was as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

There will be a fierce contest in football between tables 41 and 36 Memorial Hall, to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock. Not much science will be displayed, but gore, red and merry, will flow fast and thick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/10/1887 | See Source »

...Yale sophomores have challenged the freshmen to a tug of war contest to take place at the fall games of the Athletic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/8/1887 | See Source »

...Pike, the Hartford opera manager, is trying to make arrangements for a Glee Club prize contest. He proposes to make the Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and Amherst clubs competitors. Prizes of $100, $200 will be offered the winning club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/8/1887 | See Source »

...here. The foot-ball season is a short one and the only way to counteract this handicap is for everyone trying for a position on the team to put his whole heart and soul into the game and work to bring his college out first in the contest. A scant four weeks is all the time that remains before the first championship game takes place and in that space of time men must get into perfect training and learn all the new tricks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

Previous | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | Next