Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worst and meanest kind of "muckerism" was a thing of the past, but in this respect the students of the University of Pennsylvania seem to be far behind the age. In the first place, it was most ungentlemanly and undignified to print on the posters announcing the match that "Harvard say, we cannot play good enough ball to be admitted to the league. Come and see." Before the game, we had always supposed the Pennsylvanians could play good ball, but, as it afterwards proved, the only honorable thing about the assertion was its undeniable truth; and, in addition, we would...
...University of Pennsylvania will hold an inter-class swimming match...
...spectators who assembled at Watertown yesterday were amply repaid for their trouble by witnessing as exciting a team match as has been shot this year It seems that the Pennsylvania men have profited by their two defeats of last season, and as a result they sent up to Cambridge a team of which they may well feel proud. The visitors took the lead on the first round, and held it to the finish, but from this it must not be inferred that the match was a one-sided affair, for, when the last bird of the 320 shot...
...means of intercollegiate matches of one kind or another, the University of Pennsylvania has of late been brought into closer relations with Harvard. In the foot-ball and cricket, annual games between the two universities have been arranged, and yesterday the Shooting Club had a chance of trying its strength against a picked team of four from the same university. As the score shows, the match was a very close one, but the superiority of the visitors was so evident as to leave but small room for controversy as to the respective abilities of the two teams. We are glad...
...expected that the match will be a close and interesting one, and will doubtless repay all who take the trouble to go to Watertown...