Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...should not be changed, either to one completely intra-college, or, as suggested by Mr. R. A. Derby '05, in the "Outlook" for October 5, 1907, to one of fewer outside games and more intra-college competition. Mr. Derby's scheme would leave the Yale game or some important contest, which would still mean with our "American temperament" considerable specialization and exclusion of other interests, and the undesirable newspaper and arena notoriety of players, but it might turn some of the side-liners into players and possibly into University material. If undergraduates and graduates are not yet ready to withdraw...
...between E. L. Parker '10, scratch, L. C. Seaverns '10, 9 inches handicap, and J. L. Barr '10, 12 inches handicap. These men, with their same handicaps, meet today at 4 o'clock to play off the tie. A silver cup will be awarded to the winner of the contest...
...debaters is based upon misunderstanding; and that the Harvard system seeks to produce no ranting, narrow, or insincere orators, but speakers who are temperate, well-informed, and honest. His arguments, though they will interest the serious student, will hardly convince those whose aversion to any form of intellectual contest has made debating unfashionable. These, who are the very ones to be persuaded, may possibly be won by the formation of new debating societies, or by some ingeniously contrived rewards of a speedy and obvious sort, but scarcely by the suggestion that they might in the uncertain future become efficient leaders...
...work which the visiting team possessed. Yale's players as individuals were no better than Harvard's, nor did they play as brilliantly, but her concentrated attack and ability to push the ball over the goal line when once within striking distance, was what brought Yale out of the contest victorious. It was a game in which eleven individuals played hard and well against a more perfectly working, machine-like team, equipped with an offense that was able to gain ten yards in three downs by means of straight football...
...quarterback, there was a hard contest between Newhall and Starr, the former running the team better, and Starr being stronger in tackling and in running back punts. Newhall was picked as the best man, but Starr was too valuable to lose altogether, and so was transferred to end, where he played last year. Gilder is the second substitute quarterback...