Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...numerous moral and physical abuses to which, it is said, the others are subject. I mean tennis. It is the most popular, if we may judge by the number who take exercise in the various games It is not brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler judgment would condemn." Furthermore, this game gives ample opportunity for developing sound bodies, without drawing too much on the store of energy needed primarily for brain work. Tennis does not tend "to divide the students into two classes...
...given to its members. For this reason, we hope as many men, both freshmen and upper-classmen will see the game this afternoon. Their presence will help to inspire the nine with the confidence it must feel in its strength before it can be fully equipped for a decisive contest...
...varsity or class nines. All these men would be glad to have a series of games similar to that of last year. All that is necessary to make the scheme successful is for the management to offer cups to the winning nine and define the rules governing the contests. There will be enough nines to make an interesting contest for first place. The games last year furnished a great deal of spirt and were enjoyed at least by the players. It is to be hoped that the management, if it intends to have the games this year, will not delay...
...picked team contest at Watertown yesterday (50 birds...
...championship. Over confidence is a dangerous quality, and victory is assured by hard work, not by past glory. Harvard's weakest point yesterday was in batting. It was not until the last of the game that out nine at all succeeded in fathoming Princeton's pitching. Yesterday's contest was in fact, distinctly a pitcher's game, and as such, great credit is due Harvard's pitcher whose work, in his first championship game, was very praiseworthy. With one or two exceptions, the impartiality of the audience, in so far as it was composed of Harvard men, deserves commendation. This...