Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge Latin and High School eleven has but one more game to play in the interscholastic series, and has practically won the challenge cup...
...cup which is offered by six Harvard men is of solid silver and very heavy. It is between eight and nine inches high and about the same in diameter. The body of the cup resembles in shape half a Rugby foot-ball. About the top of the cup is a band of olive leaves in raised silver, and below this is another band on which is placed the name of the cup. Upon the wide space below, which runs round the body of the cup, are morning glories and leaves raised in silver, the leaves being left blank...
With the victory of Cambridge over the Boston Latin school last Saturday, the struggle for the interscholastic foot-ball cup is practically at an end. Many thanks are due to the donors of the cup for the successful outcome of their plan. The Cambridge and Boston schools as well as the Roxbury Latin, and, indeed, all the fitting schools in the vicinity of Boston prepare for Harvard. From them we receive, to a large extent, our material for our athletic teams. It is for our own interest, therefore, as well as for theirs, that a cup be offered. The success...
...handicap race around the lower reservoir for the Daniels cup took place Saturday. The distance is one and one-sixth miles. There were four starters, Davis '91 at the scratch, and the others with handicaps of from fifty to two hundred yards. Davis easily passed the other men and won in 3 minutes 19.3 seconds, beating the previous record. Immediately after the race Davis and Cornish made the same distance on a tandem safety in 3 minutes and 23 seconds, which is also a new record...
...exciting game of foot-ball was played yesterday afternoon between the Cambridge and Boston Latin Schools. The game was doubly interesting as deciding virtually the cup of the interscholastic league. About one hundred and fifty men from Cambridge when out to support the team...