Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year are always to be kept in mind, and full credit given for what the nine has done well. We hope that support will not be lacking this afternoon and that the game played by the nine will be a basis for more confident support in the Yale contest...
...decisive game between Harvard and Princeton on the Yale Field yesterday afternoon went to Princeton by a large margin. For two innings the contest was sharp, and the work of both teams steady. In the last of the third, after two men were out, Harvard started the scoring and from numerous battery errors and three timely hits, one after the other, netted four runs...
...earnestly wish the nine success in the contest. We hope that they will go into the game neither with the lack of confidence that makes play unsteady, nor with the excess of confidence that makes it careless...
...Princeton should win, this contest will end the series for this year, otherwise the dicisive game will be played at New Haven next Saturday...
...each of the field events the number of contestants has been reduced to five in the morning. The winners will be found in the summary below. Hickok's put of 42 feet with the 16 1b. hammer, broke his own previous intercollegiate record of 41ft. 1-8in. In the hammer contest, Patterson of Cornell made the greatest throw, over 125 feet, but this was not allowed as he slipped and had to put his hand outside of the ring...