Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 23. - The triangular gun club contest between Yale, Harvard and Princeton, was shot this afternoon in a disagreeable, misty rain. Firing began about 2.15 p. m. and ceased at 4 o'clock. The match was won by the Yale team, which scored 101. Harvard 92 and Princeton 87. Each team was composed of five men, each of whom shot six strings of five birds, making a total of 150 pigeons by each club...
...3EVERY Harvard man should read the account of the Harvard-Yale game in the Boston Sunday Journal of November 25. Everett J. Lake, Harvard's famous halfback, and James C. Greenway, Yale's noted end, have been exclusively engaged by the Journal to report the contest. Walter S. Barnes, Harvard '84, and F. Roy Martin, Harvard '93, with competent assistants and the best artists, will combine to make this football number a notable...
What promised to be a very exciting contest yesterday turned out to be one of the poorest exhibitions of football seen on Soldiers Field this season. Several of the regular 'varsity men had been over-trained and were obliged to rest, so that the team was made up largely of substitutes. In view of this fact, the management had tried to cancel the game, but the Brown men were unwilling to give...
...number of anecdotes. He explained how Senator Gorman had made false statements about the Civil Service Commission, and, when cornered, had simply replied by calling the commission impertinent. He illustrated the way in which public offices will be used for private interest by stating that Breckenridge, in the late contest over his nomination, had nearly secured victory by his office-bribery...
...team to contest with other local teams will be made up probably some time next spring. Meanwhile a committee of five, with H. A. Leighton as chairman, which will be appointed immediately, will carry on all matters of business which may come up. There will be practice every Friday afternoon at 3.30 during the winter, either in the Gymnasium or in the Carey Building...