Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drawings in the contest for second place are as follows...
...sophomore class at Cornell has challenged the University to a football contest...
...race with Columbia, we are heartily in favor of its discontinuance. There is little use in using up our crew for its contest with Yale, and that is about all the good that the Columbia race does. If the affair was nothing but a practice pull, it would be a good thing, but it has ceased to be that. It has become a hard, stubborn fight and presupposing that the Yale race is no walk-over, no eight men can pull the four miles the second time in one week, with a fair prospect for success. The boat club would...
Princeton, as will be remembered by those who witnessed the game last year, had a very strong team, and it was only by the hardest work that our team prevented it from carrying away the championship. This year the contest will be even more doubtful, both because Princeton, our most formidable opponent, will retain most of her old team, and because we have lost several of our best players. Of last year's team there still remain, Davidson, '88; Fowle, '88; Blake, '88; Griffing, '89; Harding, '89, and Morton...
After a short, fierce contest in foot-ball, yesterday morning, table 41 defeated table 36 by a score...