Word: contested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., June 17. - A copy of the challenge to Yale and Harvard from Oxford and Cambridge for the athletic contest next fall was shown the Yale athletic officers tonight...
...resolved that the points awarded Union College in the recent contest be withheld until February, 1896, in order that the committee might further investigate the charges that the winners were not members of the association...
...Kendrick read a cable dispatch setting forth the refusal of the University athletes of Great Britain to engage in an athletic contest, and it was resolved that the refusal was most unfortunate...
Harvard men would be glad to see the challenge which is on the way from Oxford and Cambridge accepted. In combination, Harvard and Yale could this year put a very strong team in the field, and could assure the representatives of the English colleges an exciting contest. The games need not in any way stand as precedent. It would be undesirable for Harvard to pledge herself to take part in regular annual meetings of the kind proposed; but if it fortunately happens that an English team can visit America, the opportunity to meet them should not be lost. Such...
...Yale team was unable to take part in the championship match against Harvard and Princeton, they wish to settle the question of the respective merits of the teams by an informal contest to be held in Cambridge...