Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior eleven played two twenty-minute balrs, against the Cambridge Latin school yesterday afternoon on the field back of Divinity. Cambridge was made up of light men, but they played a remarkably plucky game. They out-played Harvard in team work but were not a match in weight. Cambridge passed well and their backs were trained. At the start Raymond's kick lost Ninety twenty yards. Rushes by McLeod and Aiken, however, regained what was lost and and brought the ball to the thirty yard line. During the scrimmages Cambridge tackled well. Crane got another fifteen yards, aided...
...afternoon the Hurd-Post match attracted the most attention and the Yale man surprised everyone by defeating the Columbian. The scores for the afternoon ware as follows...
...afternoon on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn club. The most interesting play was between Tallant of Harvard and Hovey of Brown. Hovey took the first set easily. Tallant braced in the second set and by good steady playing, the score alternated to 6-all, Hovey winning the match. Kingsley of Harvard and Wright of Trinity also played an interesting match, Kingsley winning. The scores are as follows...
Princeton will play University of Pennsylvania in foot-ball at Philadelphia the 26th of this month. Wesleyan and University of Pennsylvania will play their match game on Thanksgiving...
...next recorded match occurred four years later, and was the beginning of a series as follows, all over the same course: July 26, 1859. Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass., one-and-a-half miles up the lake and back; Harvard (shell) 19.18; Yale, (shell), 20.18, Harvard, (lapstreak), 21.13, Brown, (lapstreak...