Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that such an action is greatly to be deplored because the present is one of the few cases on record when Yale has not had hes own way. The Princetonian further urges that as Princeton now holds the championship, Yale must come to Princeton if she wishes to contest the title to that championship...
...afternoon at 4.30. Mr. A. B. Higginson, of St. Marks, was elected temporary chairman. After the usual preliminary confusion the election of the president, Mr. S. Dexter, was accomplished, from a field of four candidates. Mr. T. S. Woods, Boston Latin School, was elected vice president. After a close contest Mr. A. B. Higginson was chosen secretary. Then followed the election of Mr. R. R. Endicott, treasurer. At this juncture Professors C. J. White, Greenough and Paine entered. A violent stampede ensued among the sophomores, exit being found through the windows in the rear end of the room...
There is one inter-collegiate contest in which Harvard may justly consider herself entitled to the first place again this year, - the contest for the Mott Haven cup. The cup has been won for Harvard so repeatedly that to lose it even once at the close of so long and such creditable work, is out of the question. We publish, however, in another column, a statement of those winners of events last year who remain in Yale and who will probably again enter the contest. The list is truly formidable, to any other university than Harvard. But even Harvard must...
Quite a large number of men are out rowing on the river every afternoon. The number of single scullers in college is increasing quite rapidly, and a good contest may be expected at the scratch races which will soon take place...
...matches so few in the year, that we are now coming to understand where the real power of the game lies. It is not the team which has the heaviest men, makes the most brilliant plays, and has the fastest runners, that is to win in the coming contest, but that eleven which employs every player to make each run, and where the ball is being continually passed from man to man. The science of the game is far more important now than mere strength. Let us remember this...