Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have heard of the trouble which Yale is having with the coaching of her crew, and now receive word that unless in the future celebrations over ball victories are less demonstrative this year will be the last in which Yale will be allowed to contest for the intercollegiate base-ball pennant. We can fully sympathize with the students who wear the blue from our experience in foot-ball. We trust that the report which is now current, that Yale will probably in any event be prohibited for playing ball next year, is without foundation. If Yale should no longer...
...second game in the chess contest between the Columbia and Harvard freshmen chess clubs, will not be played, as the Columbia examinations interfered...
...result of the Yale-Princeton game of Saturday has narrowed down the contest for the championship to Yale or Harvard. It is very nearly two weeks before the critical game at New Haven will be played, but we wish to put in a plea this early, that our nine be supported on the nineteenth of this month by as large a crowd of Harvard students as ever assembled outside of Cambridge to witness an inter-collegiate contest. Every man who owes allegiance to the blue standard of Yale will be on hand, and his lungs will be in far better...
...contest for the Oelrichs cup takes place to-day at Staten Island, New York...
...final game between the "Peachblows" and the CRIMSONS was extremely unfortunate. The postponement of the game is of little consequence in comparison with so painful a catastrophe. We trust, however, that the game may be speedily played off, as it promises to be the most exciting and closely contested of the whole series. Both nines yesterday were well settled to their work, and were fairly matched. We need not comment upon the plucky game which our representatives were playing, but desire to express our confidence in the result. We trust that another year will again see the CRIMSON triumphant...