Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson and Eli will meet in a special post-basketball-season contest this afternoon, when settlement house all-star teams coached by Phillips Brooks House and Yale's Dwight Hall play off their own variety of world series at the South Boston Boys Club...
Chase's removal of his team after Crimson wingman Dave Abbot had been badly hurt in a run-in with Yale Captain Artie Moher was merely the climax to a contest marred from the start by fighting. Both teams were by that time out for blood and the crowd was readying for battle. Further injuries, or worse, seemed certain...
...stick-swinging clash between Yale captain Artic Moher and Dave Abbot, Harvard wingman, brought the rubber game of the Harvard-Yale hockey series to a turbulent close at New Haven last night with the Elis leading, 10 to 3. With the contest completely out of official control, Crimson coach John Chase withdrew his team from the ice with one minute and 15 seconds to play...
...when they failed, goalie Burns seemed to be everywhere at once, blocking shots that in any other contest this year would have enabled the Crimson to run up an unlimited score...
...curtain raiser before the Varsity contest, Moe Berg's court charges rallied in the second half, but fell short of the mark and bowed, 44 to 40, in a sloppy but enthusiastic battle. Once again Ed Smith led the scoring parade with 17 points. The winners boasted a 29 to 18 halftime bulge...