Word: contested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first game of the Harvard and Yale series was played at New Haven, November 13, 1875. Harvard had formed a football club three years before, but the Universities could not agree upon a code of rules to govern the contest. Up to this time, Yale's game had consisted solely in kicking, while Harvard's allowed running with the ball, holding and passing. Yale made a concession and played under rules with which she was unfamiliar. As a result she was beaten, and the score, by the old system, was four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. In this game...
...debate, with a decision, between the Senior Wranglers and the Young Men's Congress of the Boston Y. M. C. A. to take place in about three weeks. The Congress has over a hundred members and contains quite able speakers, so the debate should be a good contest...
...prize. The wish of the Americans is to have six players on each side who are bona fide students of the universities. They will not necessarily be restricted to the colleges named, but must not be more than five years from the year of their matriculation. The next contest will probably be in April...
...Pennsylvania team has recovered entirely from the great slump which it fell into for a short period in the midseason, and has lately been playing in a way to make it highly probable that today's contest will be close and interesting...
...Rice '01, F. E. Thayer '01, E. R. Perry '03, J. P. Hogan '03, P. Adams '03, E. H. Abbott, Jr., '03, and E. B. Barnes '03. For the semi-final round the men have been divided into two sections, the first two in each to contest in the final round. Only one man is to be selected for the intercollegiate tournament, since Southard is still eligible to play this year...