Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defray the expenses of Kilpatrick and Conneff of the New York Athletic Club, respectively the champion runners at 440 and 880 yards, and one, three and five miles, if they will come to England and compete in the Stamford Bridge games in November, with himself and Bacon respectively, the contest between himself and Kilpatrick to be at a distance of half a mile...
...Cambridge, as the Yale men, Woodhull and Crane, will have difficulty in getting below two minutes for the distance, while Horan has done the half in 1.56. He is bothered at present, however, with a lame ankle, which he is compelled to keep bandaged, and which may make the contest a more even one than now seems possible...
...freshmen eight-oared crews of Harvard, Yale and Columbia rowed a two-mile race at New London, Conn., in the forenoon of June 27. The contest for first place was the most exciting seen on the Thames for many years. Almost until the line was crossed it was impossible to pick the winner. The usual statistics follow...
...subject, "The place of Christ in Modern Thought." Rowlinson is 30 years old. He graduated from Eureka College, Ill., in 1891. When he was in college he paid a good deal of attention to speaking, and in his senior year he was the winner of an oratorical contest...
...first game in the Harvard-Yale baseball series will be played on Holmes Field at half-past three o'clock this afternoon. Neither team will play with its full strength, but the contest promises to be a close one. Neither Whittemore nor Dean are in condition to play, and McVey will be put at shortstop. Hayes has been placed in the batting list, but is suffering from ivy poison, and there seems to be little chance that he will be able to play. Burgess will probably take his place unless Whittemore's ankle is improved sufficiently to allow his playing...