Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with pluck by both teams. The steady play of the men was especially noticeable when it is remembered that fast running was out of the question, good tackling extremely difficult, and sure kicking absolutely impossible. A steady down-pour of rain can hardly conduce to success in any athletic contest, especially when that contest is one of foot-ball...
...next event on the programme was the freshman eight-oar race. But as it took some time for them to find their places in the various barges, it was decided that the single scull men should contest meanwhile...
...rejoiceth much. Special regulations were adopted this year to the effect that no foot-ball men should be allowed to spree. The freshmen, by superior coaching, took the first two canes, the light-weight and the middle-weight. The struggle for the heavy-weight cane was a stubborn contest; after working hard for one hour and forty minutes, neither man was able to wrest it from his opponent and the cane was divided, the freshmen thus getting 2 1-2 canes and the sophomores only 1-2 a cane...
...fall athletic games of the 7th Regiment in New York, it is proposed to have a tug-of-war contest open to teams from the colleges which comprise the Inter-Collegiate Association...
...prize winners in this meeting must contest in some event, not necessarily the same one, in the handicap meeting Saturday in order to get their prizes...