Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aside from the fact that any contest would be certain to draw a number of men, there seems to be another and stronger reason why something should be done in this way. There are several events in the Mott Haven games which we have small hope of winning this year. With the departure of Clark and Rogers, our hopes in winning the high jump have vanished, to all appearances...
...last Harpers Weekly there is a full page illustration of the scene from the second act of Wagner's opera "Siegfried," representing the contest between Siegfried and the dragon...
...this plan, besides a possible international contest now and then with Oxford or Cambridge, there would be quite enough to satisfy the claims of athletics. Thus there will remain, say four games of base-ball-two at Cambridge and two at New Haven, and a fifth on neutral ground if necessary; the race at New London; the foot-ball game at the polo grounds, and, if thought best, one in Jarvis field and one on Yale athletic grounds; in addition, track athlects and tennis at New Haven and Cambridge, one at each place and alternating-or, these contests could remain...
...Bradlee, the independent candidate for mayor of Boston, has with-drawn in favor of the republican nominee, and the contest now lies between the present Mayor O'Brien and Alderman Hart...
That it is better for Harvard and Yale to confine their contests to each other is open to doubt. It would tend to increase the size of the two institutions and would act unfavorably upon athletic interests elsewhere. However, it seems to be the tendency. For some years the contest in base-ball has narrowed down to our New Haven rivals and ourselves, and the outcome of this season's foot-ball play has placed Princeton further in the background. Yale, we believe, looks upon this as a point gained, and likes to consider Harvard as her only suitable rival...