Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...moment anything but clean and manly football, it would be far better for the sport that it were not played, and not a few would feel like losing faith in their own expressed convictions as to the healthiness of the game. We have every reason to expect that the contest will be beyond all question in this regard...
...glad to extend the welcome of Harvard to the representatives of the University of Pennsylvania. The games which they have played with Harvard in the past have been characterized by a spirit of rivalry which has left both the victors and the defeated in each contest as much friends as ever. We are sure that there will be no change in that respect today...
...manager of the Bowdoin football eleven opened negotiations Tuesday with Manager Hadlock, in regard to a game for next Saturday, and it is highly probable that it will be given. Much interest would centre in such a contest owing to the newspaper discussion which has passed between the two colleges. The Bowdoin management would like to have the game played in Boston, but it will probably take place in Hanover. The elevens had a 10 to 10 game at Portland, Me., and a second game between the elevens is expected to be hotly contested...
...final debate for the choice of Yale's representatives in the debate was held on Friday evening. Ten men were qualified to enter the contest, and from this number three debaters and one alternate were chosen...
...general, the rules adopted will be similar to those which governed the inter-club debate last year. That contest was made unusually interesting by the large number of speakers on each side, which gave unusual opportunity for rebuttal, as well as a full representation of the strength of the two clubs...