Word: contested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contest in football shall be one championship game to be played alternately at Cambridge or New Haven following the order of alternation in the present series...
VIII. The contest in base-ball shall be the best two out of three games, one to be played at Cambridge, one at New Haven and a third, if necessary, in either Cambridge or New Haven to be decided by toss by the captains at the end of the second game...
There will be an important meeting of the freshman class in Upper Massachusetts this evening at 7.45 o'clock. The business which will come before the meeting will be the consideration of the constitution which has been prepared by three graduates to govern the Harvard-Yale freshman contest in base ball and football. These contests as at present managed are unsatisfactory in several particulars, and the present movement is designed to remedy this. When the constitution has been acted upon by the class here it will be submitted to the Yale freshmen. It is to be hoped that every member...
...intercollegiate race. Although the arrangements have not been perfected, it is highly probable that the concert will be given. New London will of course have many Harvard supporters on the evening of the 27th, and there can surely be no more pleasant and inspiring a preliminary to the contest than a Glee club concert. For many reasons the importance of the intercollegiate race cannot be overestimated. Without disrespect to college athletics in general, perhaps no branch of athletics has fewer objectionable features than rowing. It calls forth at once the manliness and the physical endurance of each contestant and offers...
...many graduates who now feel the same deep and lively interest in college athletics which stirred them to their very marrow and nerved them to their utmost endeavor in every contest during those fast flying years when they were themselves at old Harvard, there is apparent today throughout the University, an explicable feeling that is in the very air of Cambridge; among the men on the various athletic teams as well as among the undergraduates at large. A lifeless, listless attitude toward everything; a "we can't-help-it" spirit that is sickening. In short a total lack of real...