Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Columbia will send an unusually strong tennis team to New Haven this year and willmake a strong fight for one or both prizes. The team will consist of O. S. Campbell, A. E. Wright, A. W. Post and R. Stevens. The tournament will open next Monday. R. Huntington will be Yale's strongest representative for the singles...
...Princeton on her own grounds, we were not prepared for such a wretched showing as that made by Harvard yesterday afternoon. The nine, by its hard work, its evident ability to play an up-hill game, had raised the hopes of the college, and although we knew that the fight for the championship would be close, yet we hoped that the nine on its own grounds at least would keep up its reputation and win a leading place for Harvard. With a good lead early in the game, victory should have been ours had the nine played the game that...
...loss of this game Harvard is put badly in the rear in the fight for the championship. It will be possible to win the pennant only by defeating Princeton tomorrow, and by three consecutive victories over Yale. Harvard's chances therefore are slight, but she has a strong fighting chance for second place...
This afternoon Harvard will play her first championship game in Cambridge. This may be considered Princeton's last chance for first or second place in the series, and it is certain that she will make a strong fight for this last opportunity. Harvard will have hard work to win, but there should be no doubt of the result...
...first of the season we had little confidence in the nine's ability to win the championship, but now, because of the hard work and corresponding improvement, because of the victory over Princeton on her own grounds, we feel that our team will make a strong fight. The college as a whole is very enthusiastic over the progress and steady, uphill work of the nine. It is on Saturday that the interest and enthusiasm of the college must be shown, in the number of men who go down to support the nine. If a large number of Harvard...