Word: contests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contest between University of Pennsylvania and Princeton at the University of Pennsylvania A. A. meeting was won by Princeton...
...only handicap event of the meeting, the shot contest, was in some respects the most important of the afternoon, on account of its bearing on the Mott Haven games next spring. Jane-way put the shot 38 feet, 8 inches, which entitles him to be looked upon as a candidate for honors in New York next spring, but owing to the more than liberal handicaps, Brownlee, '89, took first place with a throw of 35 feet, 2 inches, and a handicap of 5 feet, while Hill, '90, gained second prize on a put of 35 feet, 5 inches...
...Princeton, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of Yale, Messrs. J. O. Sargent, C. C. Beaman, F. T. Greenhalge, D, C. French, J. C. Centre, Professors N. S. Shaler, and Joseph Lovering, and Rev. A. Brooks. Mr. VanDyke condemned college athletics as gladiatorial, and as consisting of a large proportion of contest, with a small proportion of athletics; but Mr. Depew, the next speaker, suggested that this view was largely due to the recent ill-success of Princeton and Harvard. Among those present were Rev. F. G. Peabody, Wendell Goodwin, and many other prominent graduates...
...indoor winter meetings this year promise to be much more interesting than those of previous years, owing to the late action of the Athletic Committee by which the first meeting is to be relieved of the preliminary bouts in wrestling, and only the final bouts are to be contested. At a meeting to be held on March 11 the preliminary bouts will be held. Another important innovation made by the committee is the one which opens the third meeting to members of all the colleges of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the M. I. of Technology. By these changes much...
...chess players of the Chess and Whist Club have been invited to visit the rooms of the Boston Chess Club, 33 Pemberton Square, Boston, this evening, and engage in a friendly contest. All the Harvard men will play separate games simultaneously against Mr. Prentiss Cummings, one of the strongest players of the Boston Club. The Chess and Whist Club has accepted the invitation, as it will give a good chance to compare strength with outside players, and will send the following delegation: H. Webster, Gr., R. D. Brown, '90, L. W. Chamberlin, '90, O. Everett, '91, H. A. Davis...