Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday morning a harlequin scrub eleven met in fierce contest the champion eleven of Memorial table No. 3, and with difficulty overthrew them. Brilliant play, rapid running, rough tackling and generous gore distinguished the game throughout. Yale's tactics were closely followed, and the disabled strewed the field. Both teams were from '87. Time was called at half past eleven. In the first wild enthusiasm, G. W. Foster kicked a goal from the field, and Loud scored a touchdown. The Flubdubs, green with envy, secured in the second half two touchdowns by Russell and Mead, and a goal from...
...subject of the freshman eleven. Our correspondent has spoken earnestly and with fearlessness. We can do no better than to voice the sentiments which are evidently the cause of his writing to us. The disgrace to the college of having men who are in training for an inter-collegiate contest participate in the early morning festivities subsequent to the ball in question cannot be passed over in silence. The performances of the men who are trying for positions on the freshman eleven when regarded as a class - there are notable exceptions - have been such as to merit contempt of every...
...allowing Gill to make the first touchdown of the second half. Goal. Carter hurt and Buchanan takes his place. Holden makes a short run and kicks to Watkinson. The ball is passed to Gill who gets way through to Holden. Holden, Boyden, Peabody, Watkinson and Bull have a punting contest which is ended by the ball going fair, when Yale gets it. Three trials gain no ground for Yale, and Morrison punts to Holden, who kicks fair, and Harvard gets the ball. A second time Holden kicks fair and Yale gets it. Yale in vain tries to get the ball...
...hill game and win it. The following extract from the Princetonian will show what the Princeton men thought of the playing of our team: "The game in general was a spirited and extremely interesting one, and the issue seemed by no means settled until the close of the contest. Harvard presented by far the best eleven she has put in the field for a long time, and their team play excited general comment." Then in an editorial, "All pronounce the game to have been the most scientific ever seen in Princeton." This is very high praise, coming as it does...
...thing the team should bear in mind is that almost all Yale's victories have been due as much to her prestige as to her skill, to the other team going into the contest with the expectation of being defeated. The only times of late years when Yale has been met by a really confident team have been the last two Yale-Princeton games. In the first one, the game was never finished, but it was anybody's game all the way through, while last year's game resulted in a well-earned victory for Princeton. These two games...