Word: matches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Committee on Athletics, believing that the game of foot ball had begun to degenerate into a brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...
...conditions which ought to have made it an easy task to run up clean scores on the tally sheets. For some reason, however, the shooting fell below the standard reached a fortnight ago, though the figures shown at the close of the afternoon's work were fairly creditable. The matches of yesterday were of importance, being the last competition but one in the current series; the result of the shooting serving to show approximately how the chances stand on the final award of prizes. Everything went satisfactorily with the exception, perhaps, of the glass ball match, in shooting which...
...rumored that the action of the faculty committee with regard to foot ball was confirmed by the non-appearance of several waiters at Memorial Hall, who were laid up at the recent match...
Thanksgiving day was celebrated in Cambridge in a novel manner. About ten o'clock a number of students gathered on Jarvis Field to see the long-talked-of match between the elevens chosen from the waiters at the upper and lower ends of Memorial Hall. The two elevens appeared, or rather straggled upon the field at about the same time, and were the subject of universal comment and admiration. The blues were headed by a pair of 200-pounders, about as large around as they were tall, while to offset them the reds showed up a couple of six-footers...
...stay in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day is always small, and yesterday even fewer students than usual were to be seen around the yard. The chief event of the day was, of course, the annual game between the rival elevens representing the waiters of Memorial. This important match was played on Jarvis, in the presence of about 100 students, and resulted in a victory for the team representing the west, or lower end of the hall, by a score of 14 to 8. Another diversion was created, soon after the close of the game, by the appearance of a procession composed...