Word: tourney
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York State College-championship tourney appears, from all accounts, to be a very discreditably conducted contest; for, while the Cornell University club has been playing legitimately, the Hamilton and Union College club teams, as well as that of Hobart College, employ professionals to help them win, and the Rochester University club goes outside of the institution for players. On May 22, Manager Bering of Cornell, made an affidavit, and the University Registrar signed certificate, that all the members of the Cornell nine are regular college students. Hamilton College and Union College both advertised for professionals in the New York papers...
...lacrosse event of the week will be the gathering of college clubs and other lacrosse organizations at the Polo Grounds in New York next Saturday to contest for the Oelrichs cup in the regular annual lacrosse tourney. At a recent meeting of the club delegates the following programme of the tourney was arranged: The games will begin at noon on Saturday next, at which time the lacrosse twelves of Harvard and Yale will enter the lists. This match will be followed by a contest between the twelves of the New York University and the Bloomfield Lacrosse Club. The third match...
...Mariotte's bottle," and carrying a flask of spirits with which to replenish his levels, he quailed not even before an enemy that he saw double. Such was the band of warriors selected by Prince Presistrardin to uphold the cause of the Faculty. And now the keeper of the tourney, who bore on his shield the proud motto "Ike Dean"* summoned the herald Jone d'Harvard to give the signal. Casting a look at the dial of the neighboring cathedral, with might and main he blew the bell which was the signal for opening the joust...