Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...misunderstanding (wherever responsibility for the misunderstanding might ultimately be found to rest), or if an oarlock should break during the first few strokes. Without some such agreement all the hard work and faithful training of many months may be brought to naught, and what ought to be a memorable contest end in an ignominious fiasco...
...game was really a contest between the pitchers and both were very effective, Fitz doing a little the better work. Chandler was rather unsteady, and in the fourth inning was replaced by Loughlin, who has been taken to the 'Varsity table again. Loughlin lost a chance for a double play in the ninth inning by neglecting to tag the runner, when, with a man on first, Foster fielded a grounder, touched his base, and threw...
Harvard today plays Princeton for the second and possibly the last time this season, as the loss of this afternoon's contest means defeat in the series. The nine is, however, playing much better than it was a fortnight ago, and, judging from their improvement, as shown against Pennsylvania and Amherst, they may reasonably expect to win. Princeton, on the other hand, has lost one of their best men in Easton, who will be unable to play. In fielding the nines are about even...
...Yale Football Association held a punting contest Monday, in which there were eighteen contestants. The following men won the prizes: 1, G. S. Chauncey '98; 2, M. L. McBride 1900; 3, T. E. Franklin...
Article 4. Rule 5. The name of each candidate for a team or crew shall be submitted to the chairman by the captain before he is allowed to take part in any contest. The captain shall not allow a student to take part in a contest unless his name has been so submitted during the playing season...