Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...championship foot ball game with Yale, the last match of the season for Harvard, was played at New Haven, on Saturday. Spectators to the number of 2000 were gathered on Yale's new athletic grounds to witness the match. Among them were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several others, graduates, who had come on with ladies form New York, Boston and elsewhere. The conditions for a foot ball match were almost perfect. There was no wind, the air was mild and the ground was more than fair...
...some days the papers have been full of wild rumors of threats made by the Yale freshmen to give up the foot ball game with Harvard '88, unless the eleven of the latter class should consent to play the match before Thanksgiving day. According to the agreement between the colleges drawn up last spring, the foot ball game this fall was to be played at New Haven. Knowing this, the manager of the Harvard '88 eleven, after having looked over the calendar to find open dates, sent to New Haven proposing either Thanksgiving day or Nov. 29 as dates...
...following criticism of the game on Saturday, is taken from the Yale News, and probably expresses the opinions of Messrs. Richards and Peters, who witnessed the match...
...Technology men telegraphed yesterday afternoon that they could not play the foot ball match...
...then commences a struggle till the ball is either forced through the goal posts by one side, or carried by the other away from that dangerous vicinity back into the enemy's country. This is the roughest part of the Eton game, and is sometimes, no doubt, where the match is a keen one, as for the House Cup, very rough. While the game is confined to boys, however, no very great harm is likely to ensue, and, as a rule, the Eton game may, we think, be said to be less prolific of serious accident than any other; certainly...