Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...novel game of base ball took place on the Dartmouth campus recently between the members of two rival boarding clubs. The players all wore dress suits with kids and opera hats, and in running and sliding bases furnished much amusement for the grand stand...
...faculty has met again without deciding on the overseers' vote on the restriction of athletics. The faculty, for slowness of action, seems to rival the United States Congress.- Tribune...
...Fourth-The committee speak of the professional methods and want of good feeling. As to the latter, a dinner between the rival teams after the contests are over, such as the Oxford and Cambridge crews used to have, and perhaps still have, would tend to remove ill feeling...
...team this year than we have, and this fact of having an abundance of good material has often helped the Crimson on to victory. The old adage, 'there's safety in numbers,' never applied to anything so forcibly as to athletics. The eleven is going to find a strong rival on Holmes' Field in June, and it will do well to bear this in mind from the start...
...daily is to be started here does not alarm us in the least, for we think we can hold our own. But if the CRIMSON should be "run out of circulation," as the Advocate evidently desires, then we shall be content to admit the superiority of our rival and to take a back seat. Lack of space forbids further discussion; but we assure our friends that we shall continue to do everything in our power to improve the paper, and we wish our would-be rivals every success...