Word: withdrew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Clement withdrew, finding that he would have to spar twice more to win the feather-weight...
...decision in the hands of Harvard, Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania, the three remaining colleges represented in the convention. This proposition was followed by a long and very heated discussion in which many conflicting opinions were maintained with considerable vigor. Finally the Yale delegates gave their consent and withdrew from the meeting together with the Princeton delegates...
Yale, with Harvard, agreed to play in Hanover if Princeton would play either in Hanover or on neutral grounds. Princeton could not enter into such an agreement on account of faculty regulations in regard to absences. Hence, Dartmouth withdrew, and not on account of any refusal from Yale as the article stated...
...Whitelaw again rushed his opponent who avoided some heavy blows very neatly. In turn Fillebrown placed some effective hits. The round seemed about equal. In the third round Whitelaw again began rushing, but was severely handled, giving few blows in return. The bout was awarded to Fillebrown. Thayer, '88, withdrew. Coolidge was therefore given abye. The judges here announced a mistake in the winner of the first bout, and after another round the winner was announced, amid the mingled cheers and groans of the spectators, as Mr. Whitelaw, who would have been declared winner at first except for a confusion...
...final bout between Whitelaw, '87, and A. C. Coolidge, '87, was marked for the pluck with which the former received many hard blows and the rapidity with which the latter delivered them. Whitelaw withdrew after the second round and the bout was awarded to Coolidge...