Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 19. - Malcolm G. Chace, organizer of the invitation college team which is to visit Canada the coming holidays, tonight announced the following players who will represent America in the contests in ice hockey in Canadian rinks: M. G. Chace, captain; F. A. Hovey, of Harvard; R. D. Wrenn, of Harvard; A. E. Foote, of Yale; Wm. E. Larned, of Brown, and G. B. Matteson, of Brown. All are well known in the tennis world. The first contest will take place December 27 and the trip includes a series of eight games played in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal...
...freshman class held its election last evening. The contest for president was very close. There were only two nominations, Perkins and Rand. The former received 152 votes, the latter...
Though the two teams at no time in the game appeared so unevenly matched as these figures would indicate, and though the contest was a severe one from beginning to end, yet the strength of the Quakers became evident before the game was far advanced. Harvard was severely handicapped by the injury of five of her players, including the captain, two backs and the centre rush, and that the team played the game they did under such disheartening circumstances does them the highest credit. The grim determination with which they kept up a plucky uphill fight when all hope...
...Yale consolidated football eleven, including in its ranks nearly all the leading players of the Yale second eleven, has arranged for a grand Thanksgiving Day game in Syracuse, N. Y., with the athletic club team of that place. The consolidated team will leave here tomorrow for the contest. About fifteen players will be taken, including Sturgis, Whitcomb, Pond, Gillette, Judd, Dater, Squires, Pullman, Mandell, Hubbard, Inman and Patterson...
Upon being questioned last night as to the condition of the members of the eleven, Dr. Conant said that the current reports of the injuries of the men were greatly exaggerated. While on account of the severity of the contest there was an unfortunate number of injuries, yet none of these injuries were more serious than those that happen occasionally in practice and are thought little of. Wrightington is the only man who will be disabled for any length of time and his injury is not so serious as was reported. His collar bone was not broken, but the internal...