Word: contests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...inserted by the Athletic Association in the second day's sports, is a novelty with us, and we must not expect to see any great amount of skill shown in this first contest. The teams will be composed of five men from each of the four classes, selected by the captains of their several class crews...
...commenting on the book, "Harvard and Its Surroundings," says: "The mention of Jarvis Field forms a pretext for inserting three pages of base-ball records, in the course of which the implication is made that the game of July 24, 1868, which Harvard won over Yale, was the first contest of the sort between the two colleges. As a matter of fact, the Yale nine of '69 had before that date twice defeated the corresponding class-nine of Harvard; once as Freshmen in 1866 and once as Sophomores in 1867." The carelessness with which the World has treated this subject...
...entry-book will positively be closed at 5 P.M. on the day preceding each meeting, to facilitate printing programmes with the names of the contest ants...
Columbia-Oxford. Bell's Life says of this race: "If the only question on which depends the race between these Universities is that of championship, we think neither this nor any other contest can take place until American rowing assumes a far different aspect from that which now exists. As matters stand, no college crew can lay claim to the championship...
AMID the confused hubbub of cheers, music and college slogans, the Fourth Annual Intercollegiate Contest passed into history. - Cornell...