Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most filled with hard work, both in study and athletics. This season is especially the athletic season of the year. It is the time when the real work of the year must be done, the faults of the winter and spring corrected, when every effort must be made to wrest victory from our rivals on field and water in the games and races that are now close at hand...
Harvard's chances for winning the championship has received a decided blow by the loss of Captain Griffing. Besides him seven other members of last year's team have left college, so that to be able to wrest the championship from Princeton and to bring it back to its natural home all the candidates will have to work their best and help the captain to their utmost abilities...
...finals, which will be the best three out of five. Messrs. Brinley of Trinity, Thatcher of Yale, and Sears and Shaw of Harvard are among the entries. Some close and exciting matches may be looked for, and Harvard's representatives will make a strong fight to wrest the championship from Brinley of Trinity, who now holds...
...candidates for the Yale tug-of-war team are working hard to wrest that event from Harvard at the Mott Haven games in New York. Davidson, '88, is anchoring in the absence of Stewart...
...another column, a book has been placed at Leavitt & Pierce's, for the signatures of those members of the sophomore class who desire to commemorate the victories won by their nine over Yale last spring. It should be remembered that eighty-nine's was the first freshman team to wrest both games of the series from Yale, since the freshman inter-collegiate contests were established in 1869. For this reason, and because the members of the nine worked hard and trained faithfully during last winter and spring, it is only fitting that their classmates should present them with some substantial...