Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is to be a contest between two of the class Glee Clubs at Princeton...
...checker championship contest in the junior class of Yale is talked...
...Friday morning Herald gives a column to an account of a recent glove contest in New York, between Mr. John Roosevelt, of the Union club, who recently graduated from Oxford, and won the heavy-weight championship while there, and Mr. Rutgers Van Brunt, of the Kuickerbocker club. The latter gentleman is a graduate of Harvard, class of '80, and, while here, enjoyed an enviable reputation as a sparer. The match was made to decide the championship of the two universities. The referee declared the contest a draw, but, as Mr. Roosevelt was unable to come to time in the last...
Madeirs, of the University of Pennsylvania, will contest in the intercollegiate sports. He won the mile run this fall in 4.36 4-5, winning the amateur championship of America...
...Parallel Bars, Bachelder, L. S. will enter. In Putting the Shot Homans '85, Curtis, L. S,, Chamberlain and Clarke, '86, will contest. In the Two-hand Vault, Batchelder. L. S., and Atkinson, '85, will enter. In the Standing High Jump there will probably be a large number of entries, among them being Batchelder, L. S., Rogers, '87, Fessenden. '86. Chamberlain, '86, and J. D. Fiske, '86. All the old men have signified their intention of going in to the Horizontal Bar contest, namely Dudly and Osgood, 87, Batchelder, L. s., and Faulkner, '86. Among the contestants for the Running High...