Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of teams in the league will be so great that it will be impossible for each eleven to play every other one, consequently the matches will be arranged as games in a tennis tournament. Each school will draw for its opponent, and the defeated one shall drop from the contest. An attempt will be made to arrange a match between the winner of the Exeter-Andover game...
...more intolerable, and must be stopped in some way. The new sod in the yard is trampled all over every day by these irrepressible youngsters; they gather in swarms whenever the Glee Club sings, and on Wednesday they used Holmes Field as a play-ground while the cricket match was going on, got in everybody's way, and yelled and hooted like young demons. Not content with this, a crowd of them took possession of Jarvis Field and played a game of base-ball there, refusing to give up the grounds to some students who wished to practice...
...exhibition match in tennis between Lee and Tallant, and Tailer and Snow was at length played yesterday, after several postponements. The first set opened with a love game for Lee and Tallant, who were playing better tennis than their opponents, and took the set without much difficulty. Tailer and Snow prevented the set from being love, but that was all. In the next set they made a strong rally, and kept the lead until the games were four all, but lost the next two and the set. The last set went to Lee and Tallant with the same score...
Toward the end of the match Tailer and Snow played loosely, and seemed discouraged by their adversaries' lead. Lee and Tallant, on the other hand, played a strong, steady game through-out, and Lee's play was especially noticeable in this respect. Snow played the most brilliant game, while Tailor's underhand strokes were very effective, and Lee and Tallant did some good placing. All four men played close to the net and volleyed a great deal. In the second set Tailer and Snow tried lobbing over their opponents' heads with good effect, but in the third most...
...seniors of the University of Nebraska have challenged the faculty to a match game of base-ball. The faculty accepted. If athletics are to be restricted among the undergraduates, it certainly is the duty of the various faculties to take part in order to keep up the interest in them. Harvard students might be reconciled to the recommendation of the overseers, if our faculty would follow this example...