Word: contestant
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Handsome cups will be given to first, second and third in each event, except in the tug of war, in which contest each member of the winning team will received a prize, and a banner will be presented to the club entering such team. In the team bicycle race a banner will be presented to the team scoring the greatest number of points, as per L. A. W. rules, and the first three men over the line will receive additional prizes. Furthermore, a handsome banner will be awarded the club scoring the greatest number of points during the entire meeting...
Last night I. N. P. Stokes, '91, won in the final bout of the second class fencing contest from A. N. McGeogh...
...however, some misunderstanding of Harvard's attitude, and we should like, as far as possible, to correct it. One writer states: "This term [dual league] as used by the press, means, as I understand it, a proposition on the part of Harvard, that Yale will hind herself to contest with Harvard in all branches of athletics, to the exclusion of contests between Yale or Harvard and any other college...
...Corbin, captain and centre rush of Yale's '89 football team, has a strong letter in Friday's News advocating the dual league. In Saturday's issue H. H. Knapp, '82, fays that in his opinion a Dual League which involves an annual contest with Harvard in all branches of athletics in preference, but not to the exclusion of other colleges, would seem preferable...
Last evening the Harvard Fencing club held a fencing contest in their club rooms. The entries were divided into three classes, prizes being given to the winner in each class by L. M. Greer, '91. Philip Dexter, L. S. won in the first class, and T. J. Stead in the third class. The final bout in the second class between I. N. P. Stokes '91, and A. N. McGeoch, '91 was postponed. Professor Louis Rondell, instructor of the club acted as referee, and Rawson, '90, and Greer, '91 as judges. The annual election of officers preceded the contests the incoming...