Word: rival
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will not make itself felt at all. A certain amount of interest, quite sufficient to make Yale debates a success, would probably be much weakened if divided between Yale and Princeton debates. Princeton debates may come in time, but the needs of the present are for one chief rival and one only...
This undoubtedly seems to be rather far fetched, considering Andover is also guilty and that each school indorsed its rival's eleven some days before the game...
Morris and Adee are both applicants for the enviable position at quarterback. In the first day's practice, Adee suffered an injury to his leg and has been on crutches most of the season. During his enforced idleness, Morris, his only rival, played a steady game, and thus has made himself the most promising man for the position...
...purpose. Then there is another disadvantage in the west; a team cannot get the practice necessary to insure success. Athletic clubs can supply this in part, as being better than nothing, but there is not the enthusiasm shown in this kind of game that there is in contests between rival colleges...
...these baseball games and further strengthened by the new alliance in football will virtually increase by one the circle of greater university teams which up to this time has been limited to Harvard, Yale and Princeton. These new relations mean much more than the mere pleasure of another worthy rival. They show a growing spirit of friendliness which must be refreshing to every man who has watched the petty squabbles of the colleges in recent years. Harvard and Pennsylvania have come to an agreement that puts them in an unfailing relation to each other and the sooner all the colleges...