Word: contested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...requested by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports to call the attention of all students who have represented Harvard University during the year 1889-90 in any public athletic contest to the following rule. This rule was adopted by the Harvard base ball and football associations in December, 1889, and was afterwards adopted by the committee as a standing regulation, applicable to all sports, to go into effect...
...pull was a contest for medals, and it is dishonest for the association to withhold them...
...extend to the freshmen our sincere congratulations upon the well-learned victory of Saturday. Not since four years ago has a freshman nine succeeded in defeating Yale in both games, and the work of Ninety-three, therefore, shows up all the more brilliantly by contrast. In regard to the contest itself, the men could not have done better. They played with any amount of snap and had the game well in hand from the start. The fact that the game was played on strange grounds apparently had no effect whatever, except for the good...
...Stephenson, '91, has been given the cup designed for the best all-round player on the Exeter nine this year. The contest between him and Saunders, '90, was so close that a second cup was offered by the Exonian board, and awarded to Saunders...
...going to be defeated just because the game is to be played away from home is entirely unwarranted. The nine has been doing creditable work of late and does not deserve the attack of those men who are ever ready to declare Harvrd teams beaten, even before the contest. On the contrary, the freshman nine has won one game and will make a great effort to get the second; if properly supported by their class there is every reason to hope that Harvard will win. Freshmen ought to sing the book at Leavitt and Peirce's in large numbers...