Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON gained first place in all the events. This was hardly to be expected as the binders, i.e., bookmakers, felt sure that Lampy's force had several events pinched. However, in the standing broad grin, a Lampoon editor cracked a smile and lost the contest. The flying hyphen was nearly won by Miss Prints '10, of the Radcliffe Ruffian, who out of courtesy, was invited to enter. The officials won the keg-emptying contest in a walk and a short walk at that. Great credit is due the business management of the CRIMSON for supplying the daily's representatives with...
...University tennis team defeated Princeton in its first dual match at Princeton on Saturday by the score of 8 to 1. Princeton won the contest in doubles between Dixon and Pyne and Harlow and Pearson. This match was won only after three sets of hard tennis, in which Princeton excelled in net play, and Harlow and Pearson at the back line. The closest match was between Dixon and Pearson, the latter winning the third set by the narrow margin of 8 games to 6. The playing of Captain Morse against Captain Richardson was especially brilliant, in spite of the stiff...
...certainty. There are several first-rate men on the University rowing squad that have not yet been tried in the first boat, and these changes would have been made before, had it not been necessary to select eight men and train them to row together before the contest with Columbia...
...This contest is the only one for the University crew on the Charles this year and on that account is of as much interest as the races with Cornell last year and the year before have proved. It also is very pleasant for Harvard to extend to another field of sport her athletic relations with Columbia. For several years there have been contests in baseball, hockey, basketball, and other games between the two universities, but this is the first boatrace. Geographically, Columbia is situated near enough to Harvard for the two institutions to meet frequently...
Another reason why the race will be of interest this afternoon is that until last fall Coach Rice of Columbia was in charge of the crews that rowed from the Weld Boat Club, and the contest this afternoon will be the first for Columbia under his direction. A close race has been predicted, but the CRIMSON feels sure that it voices the sentiments of the University in saying that there is the utmost confidence in Captain Bacon and his men to win this afternoon...