Word: matches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Chess-Club of '78 has begun a match with the Philidor Chess-Club of Cornell. The match is to be played by correspondence...
...return match with the Yale Freshmen, postponed from Thursday because of the rain, was played last Saturday on the Boston base-ball grounds. On account, doubtless, of the weather, only about three hundred people witnessed the game. Besides the severe cold, the grounds could hardly have been in a worse condition, dry spots being rather the exception than the rule. The game, under the circumstances, naturally failed to be a remarkably brilliant one. The playing of the Yale men, however, had improved noticeably since the match at New Haven. Their determination to win, too, was very apparent, making the game...
...REPORT of the Freshman foot-ball match between the Yale and Harvard will be found in another column, but the courteous treatment the visitors met with at New Haven deserves especial mention. The Harvard Freshmen were received on the field with hearty applause, which was repeated frequently during the game. After the match they enjoyed the hospitality of the Yale Freshmen, who gave them a supper, and who entertained, during the evening, all the Harvard men who were in the city...
...fixing last Tuesday as the latest date to which he was willing to postpone the final decision about the game. A letter was sent in reply, asking him to meet the Yale captain in New Haven on Tuesday. Accordingly Captain Cushing went to Yale, and tried to arrange a match. Yale urged as her excuse for not playing with a fifteen that she had only eleven men in college who knew the rules. As they were the champions this year, they thought they had the right of insisting on the game they preferred. They admitted that we had the same...
...foot-ball season did not open as gloriously as we anticipated, for in the first match Harvard gave Columbia the worst defeat she has ever sustained." - Columbia Spectator...