Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...press had nothing but words of praise for the game itself. Such an event could not but greatly conciliate the college faculties, and many even of our most staid New England parents forgot the loss of the old-fashioned home Thanksgiving in the enthusiasm of their boys over the match...
...lacking besides to secure the balance of advantage for victory Yale achieved through better kicking. Princeton could hardly be expected also to equal Harvard in rushing with a rush line of a gross weight even more disproportionate to Harvard's than Yale's, which from the start of the match was crippled by the loss of the most powerful and skilled rusher of it. But the Harvard-Princeton game was certainly a splendid demonstration of what the rushing of a heavy team can do when it is not exactly provided against. The possibilities, however, of the defensive ability...
...result of the last series of matches contested at the Shooting Club is as follows: Match A-First prize, Lamb; 2nd prize, Greene. Match B-First prize, Greene; 2nd prize, Lamb. Match C-First prize, Marquand; second prize, D. C. Holder...
...annual football match between Cambridge and Oxford universities takes place today...
HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB.- On Friday a series of three matches will be opened as follows: Match A, open to all, 10 clay pigeons, 18 yards rise, 5 angles. Match B, handicap, 10 blue rocks, same conditions. Match C, handicap, 1st prize winner barred, 10 bats, same conditions. Each match to run three weeks, best two scores to count...