Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...here, and many of us have pointed with pride to the contrast, as showing the more gentlemanly tone of Harvard athletics. But we really lose much by this way of practicing, and ought to give it up. Habit is a strong master, and the intense excitement of an important match makes it all the more important that all the conditions of daily practice should be made as exactly as possible those of a match. Men get into the habit of passing just a little ahead ; of claiming downs by merely resting their hands on the ball, when in a match...
...Technology men played Williams college at Williams town, and were defeated by a score of 10 to 0. These two elevens will play a return match in Boston on Thursday, at the Union grounds...
...Three match games will be played by our eleven during this week. This afternoon they will play the Trinity eleven on Jarvis field, and on Thursday the University of Pennsylvania menThe University and second elevens practiced on Saturday for an hour and a half. The best features of the game was the kicking of three goals from the field by Kimball. Good passing by the forwards was noticeable and at times sharp, active work by Phillips...
...that shall control them, but thus far without success. In some of these contests, particularly those of football and boat racing, the students of this university, I am glad to say, have not in recent years been participants. Football and boating, however, both have their votaries with us, but matches in these occur only between the classes of our own college, or at most with amateurs in the immediate vicinage of our city. In other athletic games, especially in baseball, our students have engaged to an extent that has proved neither profitable to those participating nor conducive to the best...
...scientific college of half our numbers, where the hours and opportunities are limited. The game will probably be well contested and certainly worth seeing, so that a word to the students ought to send a large crowd to properly back up the eleven in this their first match. Seats have been taken across from Holmes for the accommodation of spectators, and it is hoped that all men will pay their way in and not gaze over the fence, as has too often been the case in former years, when matches were being played on Jarvis...