Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Goal kicking contest, (scratch). - E. B. Bloss...
...representatives, may have the privilege of playing the representatives who have already been chosen. The committee should then make all arrangements for whatever matches may be necessary. In spite of the fact that no notice has been given such as we speak of, several men have come forward as contestants for a place on the Harvard team. But it is altogether propable that new men would hesitate to come out; and for their benefit the committee should give public notice that every competent player may have the chance to show his worth. In almost every former year a preliminary contest...
...Holmes Field. The game is likely to prove the best of the season. The nine played several games with Boston in the early part of the season, but has had no game within the past few weeks. With the remarkable improvement which Harvard has made of late, the contest is sure to be exciting...
...game Abbey pitched the most of the game, the crack pitcher, O'Connor, only going in for the last three or four innings. Harvard did not secure a single hit off the latter while he was in the box. Today he will pitch the whole game, and a rattling contest may be expected. The University of Vermont defeated the strong Amherst nine, champions of the New England Intercollegiate league, twice during the past week. A large crowd should turn out to give Harvard encouraging support...
Saturday afternoon on Manhattan Field (New York City,) Princeton defeated Yale in the third and deciding game of their series. A crowd of fully 7,000 spectators witnessed the contest, and although it was evident from the first that the advantage lay with Princeton, yet the game on the whole was an exciting one. After the end of the fifth inning with the score 3 to 2 against her, Yale failed to score again; while Princeton made two more runs in the seventh...