Word: match
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomore who wears ladies' size. The poor mat has been cursed every hour of the day and night, and now, at last, seeing that it still remained unannihilated, some one has employed violence and has doubtless returned it to its native dust-heap; or, better still, some match-boy, in sympathy with its kindred rags, has put the mat to a similar use with the old sheep-skin which Bryan O'Lynn appropriated, when, as the ballad runs, "he had no breeches to wear...
...that these foreign aspirations are a nuisance to university men. If accepted, the long vacation is sacrificed, and that for a game which is not worth the candle. It is felt that there is no special honor to be gained by rowing and defeating an American club; but the match, if made, will entail, in justice to the English club, painstaking and training for weeks, just as if for an important regatta or match. It is flattering on the part of Americans and other foreigners to be so anxious to measure strength with English clubs; but English clubs certainly...
SEVERAL papers have something to say in regard to our match with Yale. The Princetonian enters into no extended reflections, but simply remarks: "Yale has been fortunate again - in its umpire." The McGill Gazette has the following editorial upon the subject...
...regret to hear that Harvard has been beaten by Yale in the late foot-ball match. The score shows that Harvard had really the best of the match, as she obtained three touch-downs, while Yale secured one goal; but, whatever the match shows, still it is nominally a defeat for Harvard. It is said that Seamans missed a place-kick for the first time during a match. We hope that Harvard will soon regain her laurels; indeed, we are magnanimous enough to wish that no club may ever beat her, except our own, or some other Canadian team...
...meeting of the McGill foot-Ball Club on 23d November, the question of sending a team to Cambridge to play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this match an annual one, and playing too often would be the surest means of breaking it down altogether. He thought also that Harvard was too strong a club to risk a game against without the training and practice that could only be got in the fall." His view seems to have been...