Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deserves to be noticed also that the spirit pervading the players and spectators throughout the game was of the pleasantest in every way. This fact lent a very agreeable tone to the contest...
...class of Eighty-eight is to be congratulated on the success of its nine which has won now, for the third season, the class championship of the college. The victorious nine has done the best of work this spring, and has labored for success most earnestly. The contest for the remaining places will be watched with some interest, as the game between Eighty-nine and Ninety will tie the winner for second place with Eighty-seven...
...freshman nine did good work on Saturday, defeating Exeter in a finely played game. To-morrow the nine plays Yale at New Haven, and there is very good reason to hope for victory. No 'Varsity men will play on either side, so the game will be literally a contest between freshman nines, and when deprived of their heavy batters, Yale will not make so good a showing as they did in the game here. It is now examination time and very hard to leave college, and the 'Varsity game with Yale is another reason for staying in Cambridge to-morrow...
...played the deciding game in the inter-class base-ball contest. The Seniors and Juniors are now tied for first place and whichever nine wins to-day, that nine wins the championship. The class series this year has been watched with more interest than ever before, and the games played with a few exceptions, have been of a higher order than formerly; but it may yet remain an open question whether the base-ball interests of Harvard would not be served better by a consolidated second nine similar to the one at Yale. Such a team would give the best...
...excitement of the contest this afternoon we hope that no outbursts of class feelings will mar the success of the victors, whoever they...