Word: ties
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opinion was well-nigh universal that for intense, sustained and towards the last positively painful interest, the game has been unequalled in the last ten years. In the eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down and steady their hands in order to light a cigar. Gray-haired, venerable-looking men entered into the sport with...
...News says, speaking of last Saturday's game: "This game gives Dartmouth the last place in the list and puts Harvard in a position where even if Yale is undefeated until the game at Cambridge the championship can then be made a tie, in which case, Harvard may reasonably be confident of winning first place...
...weeks ago as to the result of the Dartmouth Harvard games. The remark was to the effect that to win the championship we must consider ourselves sure of the Dartmouth games. If these were lost, we should not have even a chance for the championship. To win, or even tie for first place both Dartmouth games would have to be won. "This position," says the Dartmouth, "appears slightly egotistical." We do not know exactly what definition the word "egotistical" may have at Dartmouth, but it is certainly different from the ordinary one, and we may add the one in vogue...
Saturday's victory over Dartmouth insures for us a chance to tie Yale for the championship on Saturday, while if Yale is defeated in either the two games with Princeton and Brown which remain to be played it is more than possible Saturday's game may decide the championship...
...last game with Dartmouth, the college confidently expects our nine to win, and the nine will undoubtedly do their best to fulfill these anticipations. If this game is won, the contest a week from today if won by Harvard, will place our nine and that of Yale on a tie for the championship. If lost, however, our chances for the championship are gone, even if we beat Yale on the twenty-first. It is therefore necessary for Harvard to win this game that we may have an opportunity to tie Yale for the championship and later to wrest the championship...