Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This afternoon at four the tie between the New York and Harvard Lacrosse Clubs will be played off on Jarvis field. The game is for the Oehlrich cup, the same played for in New York a week ago. The team has been practising faithfully for the last week, so that a close and exciting game may be expected. It is hoped that the members of the university will encourage our players by their presence. Admission, twenty-five cents...
...passes from one man to another. By this plan New York was unable to cover her opponents, and as her men grew tired successive goals were made on her, each in shorter time than the preceding. The third goal was made before fifty minutes, and by it the Oelrichs cup came into the possession of Harvard...
...Turf, Field and Farm will offer an international cup, to be rowed for in August next. Ten men, including Hanlan and Lee, will contest for the prize, under the London Sportsman rules...
...better day than Saturday could have been chosen for the lacrosse tournament for the Oelrich cup, at the New York Polo Grounds, the weather being perfect. The audience was rather slim, but interested; the fair sex following the fortumes of New York University as a rule, while the knowing ones were there to see "our city club scoop her in again." Six teams entered - New York, Bloom-field, Princeton, N. Y. University, Yale and Harvard, the rules being to play for an hour, unless one side made three goals before that time. Yale and Harvard were first drawn, and faced...
...record made, but in the show of material for the future and in the demonstration of a healthy competition among those who are not our very first athletes. The limited contests brought out several men who, with careful training, are capable of strengthening our present hold upon the cup, and of assuring to us another year's championship. But it is '86 that we wish to congratulate especially, in having brought forward so many strong men. Their records, it is true, will not sound remarkable to outside readers, but the circumstance of the races, the season of the year...