Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hands of graduates. The Association most willingly adopted the suggestion of the alumni, and the result has been more satisfactory than even the most sanguine of its advocates had dared to hope. Not only did a representative audience of eighteen thousand people witness a most magnificent contest between our two universities, but also, that audience and the public press had nothing but words of praise for the game itself. Such an event could not but greatly conciliate the college faculties, and many even of our most staid New England parents forgot the loss of the old-fashioned home Thanksgiving...
...advisory committee. which constitutes a court of appeals, instead of the annual squabble over technical points, the representatives of the teams unanimously withdrew all protests that had been entered, showing most unmistakably that the rivalry of the season had been a most generous one. A few years of contest between such teams and in such a spirit will so thoroughly convince every one of the value of the sport that nothing short of the most abject folly on the part of the younger players who take up the game can prevent its future being the brightest, because the most free...
...special meeting of the senior class of Columbia College was held Thursday, Dec: 22, 1887. The question of having a Memorial was brought forward, and in the discussion it was suggested that the class should found an annual prize for a junior oratorical contest. It was proposed to subscribe $500 this year, and, by annual subscriptions, to increase the fund to $1,000. The matter was laid on the table...
...Foot-ball has changed this year, as it has from year to year for the past decade, in most of its minor points. The game is very susceptible of these changes, and is constantly becoming more and more a contest that necessitates head work far superior to that of our other sports; and as this necessity grows the disagreeable feature of roughness decreases, As the "slugging" disappears, another feature of the game comes into notice. Eleven men working as one can do more than eleven men working individually. If the quarterback by his signals lets each man on his team...
Above all, let every man work hard. Skill is quite as important as strength and agility. It is not enough simply to contest on Saturday. Every one must take regular, faithful practice, under Mr. Lathrop's direction. We have a working chance of winning back the cup. Shall we? will we do it? Upon every one of us rests some share of the responsibility. Let no one shirk his duty...