Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American lacrosse team expects to win every match on its foreign trip...
...probable that next year will see a match shot with one of the above mentioned colleges, or with Bowdoin or Cornell. There is good material in the club for a team, and if a match is arranged there is little doubt but that Harvard will be creditably represented...
...members of both colleges. Harvard, for once, seemed to lose her customary indifference, and the merits of the crews and of the new stroke were the topics of conversation on every hand. At last, July 27th came, and with it the usual rush of collegians to Worcestes. A ball match and several races of minor importance were quickly finished, and at three o'clock in the afternoon of an almost perfect day, the Crimson and the Blue for the fifth time in the history of inter-collegiate boating, confronted each other. From the banks as well as from a countless...
...highly probable that next year will show more activity on the part of the rifle-men. At one time, during the early spring, the possibility of a team match with Yale aroused some transient interest, but when it was decided that no match would be arranged this year, the interest speedily died out. It was through no fault of the Harvard Club, however, that there was no inter-collegiate match this spring, for every effort was made to induce Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College of the City of New York to put rifle teams into training...
...their play. Their offence all seemed to play well and it was here that they overmatched Harvard. The defence of Harvard worked hard and well. Their throwing in particular, being a marked improvement over that of their first games. Drake, who played goal for the first time in any match did finely. Noyes and Woods played the best game on the offence, and Roundy was conspicuous among the fielders. The team felt the loss of Easton and Henry, who were away at New York, very keenly...