Word: ontario
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exchange declares that foot-ball flourishes at the Ontario Ladies College...
...plan is on foot for a confederation of the colleges of Ontario, Canada, Seven colleges are embraced in the scheme...
...with us. The game has advanced with much greater strides than the Rugby game, and bids fair to become the favorite. The playing of it is not confined to the fall season, it is taken up with equal vigor in the spring, and in some parts of Ontario is played throughout the entire year, winter and all. The game is confined almost exclusively to Ontario. Here we have fifty or more first-class clubs, the majority of them belonging to either of two Associations, an Eastern and a Western. The deciding of the championship of each of the Associations...
This scheme of drawing all prominent clubs into one Association has been followed in Ontario by the Rugby clubs and much benefit has resulted from the arrangement. Healthy rivalry has been promoted, and the rules of play which prior to the formation of the Association were arbitrary and ill defined, have been taken hold of with a strong hand, altered, improved and well-defined. The Association is known as the Ontario Rugby Union, and is under the control of an executive committee. It embraces the principal Rugby clubs of the province. Prominent among these are the city clubs of Toronto...
...Ontario cup in Canada is to be contested for this year by the Toronto, Toronto University, Humilton, London, Peterboro, Strathroy, Kingston Queens, Kingston and Ottawa...