Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...like men who had been left to work out their own salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat...
...been often predicted that Yale would win the contest by her team work, and such proved to be the case. The individual work of the Yale eleven seemed to be, and was, brilliant. But what really gave it the appearance of overmatching Harvard's individual play was the strength of the team work which was the ground work of everything and the secret of Yale's signal success. A Harvard opinion would be that the Harvard eleven, trained to the beautiful team game which Yale showed, would have been superior to the Yale eleven with equally good team work...
...contest for the boxing championship of New England will be held Dec. 10 in Bumstead Hall, and Dec. 12 in Music Hall, Boston...
Harvard played her best game of the season on Jarvis Field Saturday, when she defeated the B. A. A. eleven by a score of 51 to twelve. It was the last game before the contest with Yale; and the favorable weather brought out a large number of enthusiastic spectators. For the first time this year a Harvard cheer was heard ringing across the field in encouraging strength...
...hammer throwing contest was declared off as only one man appeared...