Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There was no contest in the pole vault...
...last number of the Advocate is decidedly an "athletic" number, for the editorials deal entirely with athletics. They consider the work of the nine, the selection of umpires, the difficulty in fixing a date for the contest for the University Track Athletic Cup, and the training of the Harvard crew as compared to that of the English crews...
Ninety-three's chances for the class championship in base ball vanished with the end of the ninth inning of yesterday's game. It was a close and exciting contest, and while the fortunes of war brought victory to Ninety-two, yet we cannot omit this opportunity of congratulating the captain and members of the defeated nine on their fair, square and plucky playing. From beginning to end it was on both sides indisputably a gentleman's game...
...contest for the banner, offered to the school winning the greatest number of matches, the University Grammar School of Providence won with a score of 9 points, with Hopkinson's School a close second with...
...first big out-door games which she has thrown open to the amateur athletic world, her own men covered themselves with credit. The more interesting of the two events was the game with Princeton. This match has for some time been looked forward to by those interested in intercollegiate contests as being the first time for three years that nines of Harvard and Princeton have had a chance to meet and prove their respective merits. The contest has come and gone and Harvard still stands superior...