Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the Shooting Club reported at Watertown, yesterday afternoon, to shoot the final competition in the winter series This small attendance is partly to be accounted for by the cloudy, raw weather, but principally by the fact that the contest for the leading places had been narrowed down until all but a few men had lost all chances of securing a prize aggregate. In all three matches the competition was exceedingly close, as is shown by the fact that no prize winner had a lead of over a point above the next competitor. Match A was the first contest...
...Athletic games of the Institute of Technology held on Saturday, several Harvard men were present. The class tug-of-war contest was won by the juniors. The contestants were confined to Tech...
McGill University has a hockey club and much sport is expected this winter in games on the ice. The St. Lawrence is frozen often for weeks at a time, and many a championship contest is waged upon its glassy surface...
...greatest interest is taken by the Tech. students in the result of the contest of class tug-of-war teams in the meeting next Saturday. The teams are said to be very strong, and much sport is expected...
...FACULTY OF HARVARD COLLEGE, GENTLEMEN :-On the 22 of Nov., 1883, the Committee on Athletics, believing that the game of foot ball had begun to degenerate into a brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...