Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit that have typified football weekends in the past two decades. Before the Yale game in the year of the News article the Harvard Provision Company advertised special scotch for the big game at $2.89 a fifth. A Crimson of the early '30's reported that "Today's Yale contest is the last of the season. From now on the boys will have to do their drinking inside." The stands were behind the team down to the last drop...
Kirkland ran away with the annual House cross-country contest yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field. Out of an unusually large field of 65 entries, the Deacons took three out of the first five positions, including first, in scoring a low-point total...
While the daily practices proceed as though Saturday's contest were just another game, the squad is continually reminded that this is Yale Week. Each night, red flares have been lighted on the fence surrounding the practice area. And last night, as the team trooped into Dillon Field House for a brief skull session after its workout, a phonograph blared out Harvard songs from the Band's "Ivy League" and "Half Time" albums...
...Friday, Eliot will meet Yale's Davenport College in the top contest of the inter-college meetings. Davenport, like Eliot, works its attack from a T formation but has turned in low scores all year...
...music terms, but the rich syrup of his voice was a natural. He covered the funeral of William Jennings Bryan ("My hardest job-I hate funerals"), the 1924 Democratic Convention, and the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge. In 1927, he was the first to broadcast an Atlantic City beauty contest ("I fell in love with Miss Oklahoma...