Word: contests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regarded in too unfavorable light. There is good material in the team, and a few days steady work will soon put the nine in a good condition for successful work. While the Yale freshman nine is exceptionally strong, and has already shown great spirit in its sharp contest with Amherst, we feel confident that the success of eighty-eight is only a question of work upon the part of each member of the nine. Though the game with the Newtons may at first have appeared slightly discouraging, it can only serve to point out the individual weakness of the freshmen...
...more regard for science than any ordinary mob displays; no doubt the game was exciting; no doubt, fine plays were made; but it was still painfully crude and undeveloped. Let us look at it now;-twenty-two men, carefully trained and in the highest possession of all their powers, contest the game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there is a possibility for fine work, all a man's energies, physical and mental, being brought into play. Instead of a must rushing hither...
GERMAN DUELLING.This was the novel feature of the meeting. When Fogg had made his last hitch and kick and the horizontal bar contest was still in progress. Reynolds, C. S., and Lempe, M. S., the two principals, and their seconds, Furness '88, and Sternburgh, '87, came out with their long dueling swords. The principals were protected with head masks and leather guards on their right arms. The seconds had on caps of different German university student corps, and wore little aprons of the same color as their cap bands. Three rounds of a minute each were fought. Each time...
TUMBLINGFollowed the flying rings, A. T. Dudley, and Knapp, C. S. were the only men of the large number who have practiced tumbling during the winter who cared to contest for the prize. A variety of single and double somersaults, hand springs, one handed somersaults, etc., made up the programme in this contest. Dudley was awarded the prize...
...freshmen cannot be blamed for their exultant feelings over their well earned victory in the tug-of-war contest, nor for their desire to celebrate it in some fitting way; but the needless destruction of private property in the shape of front gates, is inexcusable, and deserving of the severest censure, tending as it does to bring the college into disrepute among the good citizens of Cambridge. We sincerely hope that nothing of this kind will take place again. We would also inform the freshmen that there is a college rule forbidding the kindling of bon-fires within the yard...