Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale played her first game of the college championship series yesterday afternoon, defeating Princeton 1 to 0 in an exceedingly close contest. It was a pitcher's battle throughout. Young and Bowers were both at their best, and invincible at critical moments. Yale had men on third base five times during the game, but Young's masterly pitching kept the side from scoring except in the fifth inning, when he showed his only weakness by giving Bliss a base on balls. Ramsdell's error advanced the runner to second, Murphy's single brought him to third, and Young forced...
...have been much surprised if, on the day when the first number of volume I was put on sale they had been told that twenty-six years later the sixth number of volume III would be composed of two pages of editorial, a short article on an approaching athletic contest with Yale, a poem, a sonnet, a review of their own labor, and about eight pages of fiction. They would probably have been still more surprised if they had been told what the character of this fiction would be; that there would be four stories, of very different lengths...
...would be difficult, however, to fancy a meeting more interesting and exciting as an athletic contest than the one of yesterday. The score was on a perpetual see-saw until the last event was finished at 7 o'clock, and when it is remembered that a difference of one first place would have tied the score, the extreme closeness of the games can be comprehended. To be sure, Yale at the end of the fourth event had 23 points while Harvard had 9 only. Yet the mile run and the mile walk evened the score and from then till...
...hammer throwing? Or that Wade of Yale would be better by a place than R. H. Davis of Harvard? Yet such was the actual condition of things, and perhaps this very departure from the conception of how things ought to have been was what made the athletic contest of yesterday so exciting...
...seniors won the first of the final series of games for the class championship on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon, by a score of five to three, in what was the best played class contest of the season. By the score '95 appears to have put up slightly the better game, both at the bat and in the field, but both their hits and errors came at the wrong time, while '92 bunched their hits, and played their best ball at critical points...