Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Andover eleven challenged the Yale freshmen to play a match at Andover. The latter cannot accept as they cannot take the cuts necessary if they should make such a trip...
...Memorial Hall waiters are busily engaged in practising foot ball, in preparation for a grand match game on Thanksgiving Day between elevens from the upper and lower parts of the hall...
Saturday was a perfect day for a foot ball match, the weather being warm for this season of the year, consequently a large crowd was in attendance at the Princeton-Harvard game on Jarvis, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The ball was kicked off by Princeton at 3.31 P. M. Harvard had won the toss and choose the west end of the field with the sun in their backs. The Princeton men passed the ball instead of kicking, and made a rush which was soon stopped and the ball lost by a bad pass. Harvard in turn gained considerable...
...second half or inning was not less interesting but less favorable to Harvard. The rushers did not tackle well and Princeton played with a snap and audacity exceeding that displayed in the first part of the match. The ball was started by Harvard and Harvard gained ground but soon lost the ball. Lamar, short and stocky, made one of his beautiful runs, dodging under the arms of the Harvard rusher attempting to tackle him about the shoulders. The ball was then for a time mostly in the air, Moffat and Willard having a kicking contest. Princeton sometimes tried to rush...
...paying spectators and to see that the audience did not encroach upon the limits of the playing field. What did they do ? Several of them stood aimlessly about at one side of the field and allowed the crowd to jump over the ropes and towards the last of the match even stand within the fair lines so that several times they interfered with players running for fair balls. When appealed to to keep the people back they did so in such a listless, dont-care manner that the crowd paid scarcely any heed to them and did about...