Word: contests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball field. Much as we regret the necessary abandonment of the 'Varsity game, there is little use in "crying over spilled milk," especially as the fault of the spilling is not ours; so that it only remains for us now to nerve ourselves more surely for the present contest and to win, if winning is possible. The freshmen must play this afternoon with this in view. The game will be a game only by courtesy, in reality it will prove work. The freshman teams of previous years have set '92 an example which it is their duty to follow...
...that there was a very good prospect of securing for permanent club rooms the old Hasty Pudding building now used by the Conference Francaise. Definite arrangements will be made in a few days, and the next meeting, on Monday night, will probably be held there. The club will not contest in the intercollegiate tournament, which will be held at New York on Thanksgiving day. M. J. Bridge, the winner of last year's tournament at Harvard had been invited to represent the club, but he will be unable to attend, and has been decided ineligible for the tournament...
...note of this morning is at hand. By its terms Harvard is obliged to forfeit, and hereby does forfeit, the championship game previously scheduled for New York on Thanksgiving day. We regret that such is the case. Feeling, however, that the season of 1888 would be incomplete without a contest between Yale and Harvard, we therefore offer the following proposition...
...years past the Harvard freshmen teams have beaten the Yale elevens, once at Cambridge, and once at New Haven. The team this year has the advantage of playing on its own grounds, which is one reason at least why it should be victorious. The contest is more than a class contest; it represents in a way the college itself, and this is the is the strongest reason why the freshmen should make every effort to win it. We urge the team to improve every hour of the time that remains, and we wish the best success in the contest next...
Yale defeated Princeton on Saturday at New York in the second great contest for the college football championship by a score of ten points to nothing. About fifteen thousand spectators assembled at the Polo Grounds to see the game. The teams were made up of the following...