Word: matches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lacrosse match for the championship of America is to be played between the Louisville (Ky.) Lacrosse Club and the New York City Club...
...contestants for the first bout of the Middle-weight Sparring, Page, '83, and Cobb, '84, made their appearance at nine minutes past three. Mr. Wendell read the rules governing the match, and time was called. A large number of effective blows were exchanged and the men seemed to be evenly matched. Page won the first bout. In the second bout, between Biddle, '84, and Lee, '83, considerable science was shown by both men, and a good deal of hard hitting was indulged in. In consequence of a disagreement among the judges, in regard to the winner of this bout...
...mixed wrestling match between Ross of Louisville and O'Donnell of Toronto at Louisville, Saturday night, was decided in favor of Ross...
...vociferous match-boy has come again with the pleasant weather and his renewed effrontery...
...judges in the sparring and wrestling contests should be appointed from members of the association in college at the time of the events. The college feeling in regard to sparring is higher than that outside; what is desired is scientific sparring; we do not want a slugging match or a glove fight as they have at Yale. As in fencing a touch counts, so in sparring science ought to count, and one heavy blow should not count as much as two well directed light ones. If the judges decide in favor of heavy sparring, then that kind of work comes...