Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...News says that Harvard's chances for the cup at the Polo Grounds are better than ever...
...annual spring regatta of the Portland Yacht Club, yesterday, at Portland, Me., the race for the challenge cup was won by E. L. Soule's sloop Casco, in 2h. 28m. 7s., Idler being second...
...inter-collegiate sports, we have every promise of coming out with an easily won championship. Our entries are so numerous that there are fair chances of our winning in some unforeseen contest, as well as taking several second places. Columbia is our greatest rival for the cup, but unless there are a number of scattered prizes we have every hope at present of keeping it another year for ourselves. Our prospects are even better than last year's, and it would be a bitter disappointment indeed to be beaten...
...sports there is great promise of an excellent exhibition. If that important but fickle factor, the weather, stand by us, we shall be treated, no doubt, to an assuring sight for our future athletics, and one which will lead us to expect a third year's ownership of the cup...
...undue enthusiastic levity will be shown, such as carrying the victors about on the shoulders, begging for locks of hair, etc., etc. It is said that the president will give a banquet of ginger-ale and crackers to the winners. This munificence calls for the highest commendation, and a cup from the Athletic Association if they have one left...