Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indignant paragraph on the "barbarism" and "run-a-muck culture" of the Harvard-Princeton game. It declares: "The fierce tumult of young passins, the battered features, the contused limbs, the broken bones, the sprains and welts, and gashes, and bloodstains that made the record of last Saturday's football contest over at Cambridge are enough to fill the thoughts of one who reads them with mingled horror and disgust." Doubtless it would be enough if such a record ever existed outside the imagination of a sensational reporter...
...Saturday morning, notwithstanding the pouring rain, coaches on coaches of enthusiastic Yale and Princeton men started up Fifth Avenue, New York, for the Polo Grounds. At the grounds about 3,000 water-soaked but excited specrators had gathered to see the great contest. Although Princeton begged to have the game postponed Yale would not listen. At 2 p. m. sharp the two teams lined up with the following players: Yale-Wallace, Gill, Carter, Corbin, Woodrufi, Cross, Pratt; quarter-back, Beecher; halves, Wurtemberg and Graves; full-back, Bull. Princeton-S. Hodge, Church, Cowan, George, Irvine, Speer, Wagenhurst; quarter-back, Hancock; halves...
...accused of inconsistency because we state that in refusing the challenge of the Yale freshmen, the class of '90 did not consider the question of the '89 race, and consequently '91 ought not to be influenced, as we said she should, by the outcome of last year's contest. In favor of this view we hear that the Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with...
...team far out-weighing her from scoring for three-qnarters of the game. In the minds of Princeton men there is but little doubt that the issue would have been different but for the ruling off of Cowan, but the game is finished and such suggestions are useless. The contest became one in which Harvard relied on her weight entirely, using but a single trick. The disorganization of the Princeton team left her at a great disadvantage and the fight became an up-hill one. Every man on the team deserves credit for coolness and pluck to the very...
Nevertheless, in spite of this misfortune, we are confident that the eleven that Harvard sends to the contest today will make a showing of which no one need be ashamed. But whether Harvard wins to-day, or whether she loses, highest praise is due those men who have worked so faithfully all the fall for the glory of their college...