Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first meeting of the Sheffield Gun Club, at Yale, only 39 clay pigeons were broken, out of 90 shot at in the match...
There is undoubtedly something repugnant in a blue book, the mere sight of one is apt to excite our animosities; they have an effect upon us something akin to that produced by a Yale-Harvard foot ball match-they dampen our ardor. However, like many another thing here at Harvard, they are a necessity, and we have no choice but to support the book stores at this period of the year by a liberal patronage in blue books. Someone is made happy, at any rate. Let us not be so selfish as to want to take away this pleasure...
...extraordinary popularity of Rugby foot ball in the north of England was shown Dec. 13 at a match at Bradford between the two strongest clubs of Yorkshire, namely, Bradford and Wakefield Trinity. Twelve thousand tickets were sold before the day of the match, and that day proving fine, the paid attendance totaled...
Though no regular matches will be shot at Watertown until after the semis, it is probable that a practice match may be shot, sometime during the coming week...
...into prominence, and scores of new players been developed The same may be said of the interest taken in the game by the general public, or from a spectator's point of view. The dozens which a year or two since made up the audience at a first class match have now become hundreds...