Word: tieing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...series of hard earned championships and the happy prosect of repeating the performance again an occurence which is becoming so rare here as to excite something akin to amazement. So far this season the lacrosse team has only been able to play a single game, resulting in a tie, but as the members of the team have not yet been definitely selected, a candidate has good reason to trust that with hard work, he may attain a distinctin which is so uncommon at Harvard as to be precious-that of playing on a team which actually wins championships...
...were the contestants. Pillsbury was given first place and Hull second. The tumbling was well done. After some very creditable work, Myers dropped out, leaving Barney and Henderson to work for first place. The judges were unable to tell which was the best man, therefore they called it a tie, saying Barney was the more proficient in somersaults but Henderson the better in connected work. H. L. Phillips, Gr., did some fine club swinging. This event was very "taking," and it seemed a pity that there were no more entries. Barney, '90; Myers, '90; Henderson, '91, and B. C. Stevenson...
Harvard has been rowing a series of annual eight-oar shell races with Yale since 1876. The record won is a tie-each college having row six races. Prior to the eight-oar contests the record was 17 to 4 in favor of Harvard. Beginning with the annual series, Yale won in 1876 by eight lengths. The following three years Harvard's crew, with Bancroft as stroke and captain in '77 and '78, and with Trimble as captain in '79, won all the races. In 1880, Yale won, and also in 1881 by six seconds. Capt. Hammond...
...dropped out when the bar reached 6 ft. 6 in., and Tallant, when it reached 6 ft. 10 1-4 in. Barney and Pearson both vaulted the bar at 6 ft. 10 2-5 in.; but neither was able to vanlt any higher and the result was declared a tie...
...Harvard and Yale nines since the beginning of their intercollegiate contests in 1868. Both universities have won twenty-nine games. In 1883 Harvard led Yale six in games won. Since then Yale has improved disproportionately and has won enough games over Harvard to make the score a tie. In this condition the present season opens. It remains to be seen whether we forge ahead of our rivals or permit Yale to continue their victorious career...