Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Contestants will be handicapped according to their known record; those whose ability is unknown will be handicapped at twenty-eight feet in the shot-putting contest, and at four feet and ten inches in the high jumping contest. 2. The winner in each contest will score as many points as there are men in that contest; the second man one less, etc.; every man scoring according to his position. 3. The handicaps of the contestants will be changed according to any improvement made over their former records.4. Those who win at the several contests will have their names upon...
...course, that there is enough cold weather to make good skating. So slight a matter as a difference of rules might easily be arranged by a meeting of delegates from the two clubs, and should not be permitted to prevent what would surely be an interesting and exciting contest. Meanwhile the warm weather still makes the game a mere speculative possibility...
...skates, second prize pair gold inlaid skates, second prize silver cup, third prize pair American skates; 220 yards dash open-fee 50 cents, 1st prize Waltham silver watch, 2nd prize silver carving set; backward race open, no fee-1st prize split bamboo rod, 2nd prize pair opera glasses; figure contest, open, fee $1-1st prize gold medal, 2nd prize silver medal, 3rd prize bronze medal; mile championship of Massachusetts, fee $1-1st prize, silver medal, 2nd prize pair of B and B racers, 3rd prize bronze medal; hurdle race open to New England, no fee-1st prize pair...
...first place there are few events in an athletic contest which equal it in excitement, and none that surpass it in the interest taken in its outcome. Then the "dangerous character" is not so much the fault of the event as it is of the candidates for the team. When a man thinks of entering a race, a jumping match, or a boxing bout, etc., he prepares himself for it by a long course of careful and faithful training. He does not wait until within three or four weeks, and then by a few irregular trials, each to his utmost...
...from us by other colleges. Until within two years our teams have taken, almost consistently, first place at the Mott Haven games in this event. Now, however, there seems to be little or no interest in the sport and no attempt to prepare a team for this year's contest. Our men seem to have been completely discouraged by the defeats of last year. Meanwhile Yale and Columbia are putting forth every effort to put a winning team into the field...