Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students, after a sumptuous repast, to host: "Our compliments to your kitchen and cellar. We have agreed to have a running match, and the one who comes out last will pay the bill. Will you kindly give us a signal to start?" The beaming host slowly counts one, two, three; the students disappear round the corner and are seen no more. - [Fliegende Blatter...
...next day nothing but thanks, must be great to the youth of the street, educated in the school of dime-novel literature. Hereafter we cannot look to be favored with the presence of these youths, save when they are found among the great unnumbered outside the fence at a match game of ball...
...Yale News dislikes our criticism of the lacrosse game. We are sorry, but did not the News also object to our remarks about a certain foot-ball match last fall...
...Friday last the Haverford defeated our cricket team by a score of 104 to 72 runs, a one inning match. On Saturday the University of Pennsylvania defeated our team in one inning with a score of 122 to our 35 for first inning and 77 for second inning. The play of Harvard was well spoken of by the Philadelphia papers, and the showing we made was good considering the team we played against. Our score of 77 in the second inning against the University of Pennsylvania, one of the best teams in the country, was very creditable...
...communication in the last Crimson on the subject of the cricket eleven seems to be entirely uncalled for. Last fall the eleven certainly did poorly in the matches played, but the year before it was very successful and this year its showing has thus far been good. In its first match with the Longwoods, the best club in Massachusetts, Harvard was beaten, but if George Wright had not played on the Longwood eleven the score would have been very close. The last match with the Longwoods, when George Wright did not play, resulted in a draw. Our team, however...