Word: contest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initial contest was won from William and Mary by a score of 14 to 5. Frequent errors on the part of the Virginians aided the Harvard batters while Howard Whitmore '29 held the home team in check throughout. The slugging of B. H. Ticknor '31 who slammed out a double and a home run featured...
...next day the Crimson met the strong Quantico Marine outfit and lost by a 6 to 3 score in a seven inning contest. The Southerners bunched their hits well off W. H. MacHale '31 and won a clean-cut victory. Ticknor knocked his second circuit clout of the trip in the seventh inning, with Kidd the Marines star twirler on the mound...
Governor Long was farm-born 35 years ago at Winnfield in the upper part of the state. At 13 he peddled school books, developed an amazing gift of gab. Then he took to selling a lard substitute, conducting baking contests. The winner of such a contest in Shreveport became his wife. He hustled through a three-year college course in seven months to jump headlong into state politics-''on the people's side." His campaigns were never dull and usually triumphant. The cities to the south were against him but in the northern reaches of the state...
Casey was one of the most prominent gridiron performers of his day, and as Freshman coach, he has had an unusually successful career, having lost but one contest during his three years in that position. His teams have been consistently victorious over Yale, and his only defeat came at the hands of Andover in the first game of the 1926 season...
Winston won both the drop kicking and kicking off contests yesterday, beating C. O. Newhardt '31 and J. W. Potter '30 in each of these respectively. In the forward pass receiving competition R. S. Ogden '31 proved to be the most adept at snaring the forwards that Coach Casey threw. Nathaniel Warner '30 captain-elect of the University wrestling team, won the center passing contest for accuracy. Newhardt captured honors for linemen by winning the coming out of the line competition...