Word: contest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming months. Since the advent of the House system in the early 1930's, College-wide elections have become increasingly anachronistic. With Harvard broken down into small, 400-man compartments it is very difficult to attach much more significance to a class election than one would to a contest to see which undergraduate has managed to get his name before the most students during his four years at Harvard...
...contest started quickly with the Big Green jumping away to a 12-4 advantage at the 5-minute mark. The varsity retaliated, however, and knotted the count at 14-all when Bob Bowditch hit one of his patented left hand jump shots four minutes later...
...freshman game will precede the varsity contest, which on the basis of past performances and all-around strength should go to the Indians. Back on Friday, October 24, however, people were saying the same thing about another Dartmouth team that came to Cambridge...
...Life doesn't hang on the result of a basketball game, but it seems like it when you play Rupp." Rupp himself cares little about the effect his self-centered personality has on others. Says he: "I am not engaged in a popularity contest. I want to win basketball games." So far this season, Kentucky has won them all in tough competition, e.g., St. Louis, West Virginia, Maryland, at week's end ran its record to 11-0 by dumping Georgia Tech...
...Oklahoma showed real authority in striking for quick touchdowns on plays covering 40, 42 and 79 yds., polished off slow-moving, slow-thinking Syracuse in the Orange Bowl, 21-6, in a game that was no contest after the first period...