Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forwarded to England that may lead to aquatic events of interest next season. Mr. Peter Duryea offers to back a sculler (at present unnamed) against any other rower in the world, in a three or five mile race, for from $5000 to $10,000 a side. He will also match a pair of rowers against any other two scullers for a like amount...
That form of entertainment known as a six days' go-as-you-please pedestrian match has died a natural death...
Dartmouth's foot-ball team received an overwhelming defeat from our 'Varsity yesterday on Holmes, before about four hundred spectators. The result could have been predicted at the very outset of the game, for the visitors were no match for our men either in weight or skill...
...eleven of Columbia, class '85, which sustained defeat at the hands of the Stevens Institute at Hoboken on Saturday and not the Columbia University eleven. The latter played their first match of the season yesterday with the Princeton team at the Polo Grounds...
...kick except that of a "punt" - or kick on the fly. Besides which touchdowns are recognized as part of the game, but do not count in the score, no goal being made except by a kick from the fielding play direct. A majority of goals decides the match, and in case of a tie in the score of goals, a majority of "try at goals" gives the game. But a tie in "try at goals" leads to a drawn match. There is another important difference between the Rugby rules and the American college rules, and that is in the case...