Word: silver
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chess trophy, a silver punchbowl, was first offered in 1891, and will become the property of the university winning it for ten successive years. Harvard has already won it five times in succession. For the last three years Harvard has won ten points out of twelve. The lowest score which ever won the tournament was eight and one-half points, made by Harvard...
...open handicap cross country run tomorrow is open to Harvard and other New England college men, but only thirteen entries have been received. Handsome silver prizes will be given to the winners. The following six Harvard men are entered: A. W. Blakemore 3L., D. Grant 2M., H. W. Foote 2Dv., F. B. Taylor 1L., O. W. Richardson 1L., J. A. Knowles...
...Grammar School, New York City, beginning Christmas Day and continuing throughout Christmas week. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia will be represented. Each team will consist of two men and each member will play six games. The team with the largest percentage of games won will win the match. The silver loving cup, which has been won by Harvard teams for the last five years, will be again played for. The conditions are that the college winning it ten consecutive times will become the perpetual owner...
...matches which will be played next spring will be chiefly club and interclub contests. Interteam tournaments will be arranged with the Brookline, Wollaston and Oakland clubs, and there will be numerous matches against bogey, the winners of which will receive the customary silver cups. In accordance with a new regulation of the club, pink jackets will be given to all men playing in team matches, and it is probable that a club-cap will be selected and awarded to winners in the club tournaments. The spring matches will begin in March and will be held on alternate weeks throughout April...
...actual size photograph on linen of the international chess trophy offered by Mr. Isaac L. Rice of New York has just been received by the Chess Club. The trophy, is a silver cup, having at its top the arms of England, with the English and American flags crossed below. Beneath, supported by two female figures, is a globe showing two hemispheres connected by a cable. Below the globe is represented the American eagle, and on a shield which forms the background of the whole are, on one side, the shields of the four American universities, and on the other those...