Word: contests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Signora Castroni, wife of the fencing master at the gymnasium, is said to have challenged the fencing master of the Narragansett Boat Club to a contest with broadsword, rapier or dagger...
...Amateur Athletic Union announced for January 19 at the Madison Square Garden. New York, promise to be an unprecedented success. There are about six hundred entries including a number of college men for the fourteen events. In the 75-yards dash alone there are one hundred and nine contestants, and among them, Robinson of Yale. Harmar, of Yale, will compete with seventy-four other athletes in the mile run. The entries for the running high jump number forty-seven, and among them is the name of Shearman of Yale. In the half-mile run, Harmar, of Yale, and Dohm...
...announced that the N. A. A. A. A. will send a team of champion athletes across the ocean to contest against the athletes of England, Ireland and the continent. Letters have already been received from prominent English and Irish clubs asking the team to take part in games to be organized specially for it. To select members of the team, a series of games will be held at the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club on May 18, which will include all kinds of out-door sports and on May 20th a ten-mile run will take place. These meetings...
...generally understood by the repeal of the old regulation that no objection will be made to a contest with any team on the mere ground that it is professional, so that the nine is now practically free to play with professional teams...
After the introduction of the game by the class of '66, nines were formed in the various classes and many a stubborn contest was played by the different teams. These games brought out many men who showed proficiency in playing, and on October 12, 1864, a 'varsity club was formed. This club played many games with representatives of the different colleges, and with other amateur nines. In 1868, it received a challenge from Yale to play a championship game, in which the condition was that the men on both teams should be chosen from the academically departments. This challenge...