Word: player
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...official acceptance of the challenge sent by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia for a chess match by cable has been received from Oxford University. The Englishmen consider six players on a side sufficient, and suggest April 20 as the date of the match. They further suggest that no player shall be eligible for more than five years from the date of his matriculation as a mean between the qualifications for English and American intercollegiate chess matches. This tournament is to be held under the patronage of the Manhattan Chess Club...
...system of scoring in matches between members of the Harvard Golf Club, which was planned at the beginning of the season, has been given up and the method employed last year is now in use. It is, in brief, that the number of holes a player makes over and above his opponent's score shall go as so many points to the credit of the winner...
...Newtowne Athletic Club of Cambridge at the Locust Street Rink in Boston. The team showed improvement since the game with Brown and won by the score of 4 3, making three points before Newtowne scored. Matteson has improved more than any of the rest and is now the strongest player on the team. The lineup was as follows: Forwards, Boardsell, Goodridge, Hardy, and Matteson; coverpoint, Stevens; point, Holt; goal, Russell...
...work will be begun with the nucleus of a very strong team, as Lauder, Fultz, Sedgwick, Perkins. Gammons, Boyd, and Cook, of last year's nine are still eligible. The schedule is nearly complete and is to contain games with Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Tenney, the old Brown player, now on the Boston league team, will do the coaching...
...objectionable features of the game have been done away with, however, for the present rules, as amended by Dr. Sargent, do not allow the ball to be wrenched away from a player. At the same time the demand for skill in the game has been increased...