The phrase "a rivalry in which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a description or explanation of a competitive relationship between two or more parties.
Example: "The documentary explores a rivalry in which two famous athletes pushed each other to their limits."
Alternatives: "a competition where" or "a contest in which".
Georgia went on to a 42-30 victory, suddenly altering a rivalry in which Florida had won 15 of the previous 17 meetings.
The Chiefs offense is formidable enough that even in a rivalry in which home field counts for plenty, the Chiefs will prevail.
Arsenal moved to the Tottenham neighborhood in 1913, and the enmity between the two clubs, which are separated by a short bus ride, fuels a rivalry in which Arsenal has now won 75 derby matches and Spurs 54, with 47 ending even.
And this year, tonight's Game 5 at American Airlines Arena will give the winner room to exhale for the first time in this series; a 3-2 lead will be tough to overcome in a rivalry in which neither team has won consecutive games in the last nine postseason meetings.
The Lakers and Spurs begin another playoff series tonight at Staples Center, their sixth meeting in the last 10 seasons, part of a rivalry in which familiarity breeds mild contempt and, often, an NBA title.
Still less do they understand that the great rivalry has in large part become a business rivalry, in which George Steinbrenner and his minions (the "evil empire," according to Larry Lucchino, the Red Sox president) compete with the Red Sox front office and its éminence grise, the stats wizard Bill James, to see who can better deploy an enormous payroll.
Saturday vs. Notre Dame, 7 30 p.m., Pauley Pavilion, ESPN2 — This is the resumption of a longstanding rivalry in which the teams have met 48 times but not since December 2009.
Ohl gets round this difficulty with his contemporary setting: among other things, Mr Dick is a tale of academic rivalry in which Dickens is the prize.
Although Tom and Dick Smothers are now in their 60's, their affectionate sibling rivalry, in which a twinkly, smirking Tom mischievously upstages his strait-laced younger brother by going on nonsensical tangents, is a routine that has become as classic as Jack Benny's exasperated shticks.
Appropriately, '71 adopts an apolitical nihilism, depicting rampant internecine rivalry in which everyone is at each other's throats: nationalists and loyalists; army and RUC; squaddies and Military Reaction Force undercover agents; officials and foot soldiers – on both sides of the divide.
On the other hand, Laing and Chow [59] considered a deterministic spiking neuron model of binocular rivalry in which the statistics of the resulting dominance times appeared noisy due to the aperiodicity of the high-dimensional system's trajectories.
