Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lacrosse team is considering challenging the St. Louis Lacrosse Club, the crack team of the United States, to a match game in the spring...
...crowd of spectators which assembled to witness this match was much gratified at this interesting display of musical athletics. The Glee Club won the toss. Having massed the basses in the centre, and stationed the tenors on the wings, the leader gave the signal for readiness. In the meantime the 'cellos had performed a beautiful fantasia, which elicited great enthusiasm from the lookers-on, but gradually subsided to a low wail, as if preparatory to defeat. The signal was given; the instruments lead off on the "Marseillaise," while from the other end of the field thundered the chorus of "Yankee...
Arrangements have now been completed for the coming matches between the British Foot-Ball Club of New York and the Britannia Club of Montreal, the present champions of Canada. These matches will be the first played in America as Rugby foot-ball is played in England. The first match will take place at Hoboken, November...
...Varsity had a very fine afternoon for their foot-ball match with Amherst Saturday, and though the game as a whole was not particularly exciting, still a number of quite brilliant plays from time to time made it interesting for a while. Amherst kicked off at 2.40, and in three minutes Harvard scored a touch-down through Wesselhoeft from which Mason kicked a goal. During the rest of the three quarters the ball was on Amherst's territory most of the time, and three or four times Harvard narrowly missed scoring, but nothing was gained by either side...
...team was, perhaps, unable to match them in these particulars, but wisely stuck to their usual tactics, seldom running with the ball, but forcing the attack by a series of passes from one man to another. By this plan New York was unable to cover her opponents, and as her men grew tired successive goals were made on her, each in shorter time than the preceding. The third goal was made before fifty minutes, and by it the Oelrichs cup came into the possession of Harvard...