Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting of the Polo Club, it was decided to have match games in the spring. The winning team will be presented with silver cups. The advisability of a race was also discussed...
...York Athletic Club will hold a boxing and wrestling match on February 27th. The admission...
...Weekly has a brief article on the foot-ball question. In speaking of the Yale-Princeton game, it says: "The annual encounter of the elevens of these two colleges seems to be looked to as affording "the pace" at which college foot-ball shall be carried on. Their last match at New Haven was universally commended as an uninterrupted and gentleman-like pursuit of the game proper, unattended by private fisticuffs or wrestling bouts of a brilliant but extra and unnecessary kind, and it was perhaps very greatly in consequence of the quality of this match that the recommendation...
...most interesting games that ever excite college audiences will again appear in Cambridge. In this sport the outlook would not, however, be particularly bright. What material there is now in college from which to form an eleven is the remnant of the old '84 team, which was no match at all for the finely trained teams of Princeton and Yale. Still, there are enough good athletes in college to form a strong eleven, and they could learn to play the game. It is to be hoped that Harvard will once more be allowed to enter the inter-collegiate foot-ball...
...first match of the Harvard Shooting Club was shot last Saturday afternoon with the Dedham Club, on their grounds at Dedham. Each Club was represented by a team of six men. The conditions were 20 clay birds for each man, to be shot in four rounds at 18 yards rise, with five angles. The match was very closely contested. At the end of the first round, Dedham led by a score of 13 to 12. In the second round, she again led with a score of 16 to 15. In the third round, the best shooting of the match...