Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Varsity Eleven will probably play a practice game Saturday afternoon with a team composed of graduates: Those who were present at the game with the graduates last fall will look for a lively contest. Let us all turn out and encourage the team...
Yesterday's races were as successful as could have been expected under the circumstances. A chilling drizzle does not furnish the most encouraging weather for a successful scratch race, where fun and excitement are chiefly looked for. Nevertheless the contest of the senior eights yesterday excited considerable interest and enthusiasm. The single scull contest was not so well carried out, but nevertheless was watched with interest. One of the (usually) most amusing features of the day was necessarily postponed till next Saturday, viz., the contest of the freshman eights. The success of the day, as a whole, under the adverse...
...play with professionals or to have the services of professional coaches in their training, will work greatly to the advantage of the nines of the smaller colleges such as Amherst and Dartmouth, who have had few of these advantages. Consequently it can be expected that next year's contest will be far closer than that of the season just closed. If, also, as is expected, Williams makes application and is admitted to the college league, another dangerous rival will be added to the list of contestants for the championship; for a lively interest in base-ball has always existed...
...bitter contest is brewing at Union College. The faculty intend soon to take steps to oust President Potter from his position. It is said that charges of financial mismanagement will be brought against...
...forward to regatta week. But the majority of the people refuse to "enthuse" in the least over the young oarsmen, and it must be acknowledged that college boating men are no longer the popular heroes that they were in the palmy days of the great regattas at Saratoga. Any contest that occurs every year soon assumes the character of an old story for the rapid, irrepressible American, always thirsting for something new. Now that the novelty of college boating has worn off, the factitious excitement disappears, but there is left a solid residuum of enduring interest, which, perhaps, is worth...