Word: match
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...match with the Beacons to-morrow will take place at 3 P. M. The grounds (and the spectators) will be roped in, and policemen will be in attendance...
...March 10, near Dublin, Ireland, was kicked the Annual International match between England and Ireland, and England proved the winner by a score of two goals and a touch-down to nothing...
FOOT-BALL.ON March 2, at Glascow, Scotland, the Annual International match between England and Scotland was kicked, Scotland winning by seven goals...
...second bout of the sparring-match between Messrs. Otis and Sharon followed. Hard hitting was drawn forth by a severe counter dealt Mr. Otis by Mr. Sharon, the blows up to that time having been light. Mr. Sharon won the bout...
...here in Cambridge; Yale especially was a dangerous rival. The team would probably consist of fifteen men; the question would be decided at the May meeting of the Captains from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard. Probably no association would be formed. As to trophies, the balls used at the match-games were not satisfactory for exhibition; and he therefore proposed a prize-flag for every game. After some discussion, it was recommended that three touch-downs should equal a goal, and that four touch-downs should win over a goal, but that a touch-down from which a goal...