Word: contest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University football team will play the United States Naval Academy at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon at Annapolis. Harvard's strength has not been fully tested in any game this year, while the Navy has had little difficulty in running up a large total score, in its preliminary contests. Last Saturday the Navy defeated Lehigh 16 to 0, and cancelled Wednesday's game with Maryland in order to practice for the contest today. In Northcroft she has a good kicker, as is shown by his goal from placement from the middle of the field in the Lehigh game...
There seem to have been some slight misunderstandings in the ranks of the Republican Club. With election day little more than a month off and their competitors of rival political faith marshaled by men of campaign experience, prepared to strain every nerve in the coming contest, they find themselves without a constitution. Clubs, and political clubs of all others, without constitutions may fairly be considered rudderless, and reorganization seems the only remedy...
...Augustus Everett Willson, Kentuckian by birth and residence. Harvard Bachelor of Arts in 1869, a trusted and respected lawyer, in politics a Republican in a Democratic State, elected governor of Kentucky in 1907 for four years, after an energetic and troublous contest, a fearless, honest and disinterested public servant...
...cannot be predicted with the present unsettled condition of the Harvard crew, and much depends on the work of the next week. The four-oared race ought to be won by Yale, but the Harvard Freshmen will probably win their race easily. In the Freshman four-oared race the contest will probably be close, but the Harvard graduates ought to win against the Yale graduates as in the three other years that there has been a contest...
...University baseball team won its last game before the Yale series by defeating Holy Cross, on Saturday, in an exciting contest, 4 to 3. After the first inning, in which both teams scored once, the University team gained the lead in the third, but Holy Cross tied the score in the fourth, on Carney's home-run. Harvard again took the lead with a run in its half of the fourth, and Holy Cross brought in another in the fifth. Holy Cross made their last run in the next inning...