Word: matches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been decided to have a foot-ball match between the McGill University and the Harvard...
COLLEGE exchanges indescribably dull. Western papers exploding over last year's jokes; Eastern agitated about the intellectual tournament, which (judging from the action of the Hartford convention) has dwindled down into something rather superior to an old-time spelling-match, but inferior to a good peppery debate in some Philopolysyllabic fraternity of Western fame. Apropos of the above, we are grieved to learn that black corruption has been at work in the proceedings of the convention. Vide the following extract from the Daily Saratogian...
...Freshmen and Sophomores played a match game of foot-ball on Thursday afternoon, in which '77 came off best...
YALE won the foot-ball match with Rutgers, at New Haven...
...Harvard Eleven, after many futile efforts to arrange a match, has postponed all contests till spring...