Word: contestant
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Yale will have an inter-class football contest for the first time this fall...
This afternoon the final game of the class series will be played between the Juniors and the Freshmen. The contest should prove a close one. The Freshman team is probably the stronger of the two, but it must contend against the inherent prestige of the upper class, and the greater experience of the Junior players. The 1901 eleven will therefore hardly do itself justice without the moral support of a friendly crowd back of it. The Freshman class will do well to bear in mind then that the place for them this afternoon is Soldiers Field. They are represented...
...trial debate last night to choose Harvard's representatives to debate against Yale, started the preparation for this important contest in rather encouraging fashion. As must always be the case, comparatively few of the men who have already spoken on 'Varsity debates tried for places, but the size of the audience showed that the importance of the event was appreciated. Moreover the large number of candidates for intercollegiate honors, and the creditable average ability which they displayed were distinctly gratifying...
...before the intercollegiate shoot, to be held this year at New Haven. All men, therefore, who expect to try for the team, must practice steadily in the short time which remains. For this purpose there will be regular practice shoots twice a week, and once a week a prize contest. In addition to this, three shoots will be held this fall for the Founder's Cup. Every fall and spring this cup is contested for in several matches, the cup to become the property of the man winning it five times...
...training daily for the fall track games. The ten divisions are very evenly matched, both as to numbers and ability so that the Freshman games promise to be very interesting. The good men are well scattered, no two being in the same section, thus making the result of the contest rest almost entirely upon second and third places...