Word: contestant
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YALE FIELD, NEW HAVEN, Nov. 24--Harvard met Yale this afternoon on Yale Field in the annual gridiron contest between the Crimson and the Blue. Fully an hour before the time set for the game, the crowd of 36,000 people had begun to arrived on the field. The weather was bracing and the field itself in excellent condition, although a stiff west wind was blowing directly, acrose it. The sky was fell of clouds interspersed with chinks of blue through which the sun shone at intervals...
...advantage. The next two games with the light Bowdoin and Maine teams were easily won by brilliant work, the first with a score of 10 to 0, the second 17 to 0. The game with Bates, won by Harvard by the score of 27 to 6, was a contest which, although one sided, was decidedly interesting and fairly encouraging for the University team. The Bates eleven, light and extremely fast, showed great ability in handling the forward pass and the on-side kick, and scored their only touchdown by the advantageous use of these two plays. In the contests with...
...usual good game, and showed his ability at drop kicking to good advantage. Of the backs Wendell was the mainstay in rushing the ball, and with Lincoln, formed a fairly strong secondary defense. Finally, considering that so many substitutes were played on the University eleven, the outcome of the contest was far from disappointing...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association several changes were made in the method of deciding the intercollegiate championship. Instead of holding the water polo and swimming contests at separate times, all the swimming contests being held on one night, there will be a series of dual meets consisting of a combination of contests. Every team will have a dual meet with every other team in the Association, and the one winning the greatest number of meets will get the championship. At each meet there will be a water polo game, a plunging, and a fancy diving contest...
...most brilliant contest since the adoption of the new rules, Harvard defeated the Carlisle Indians Saturday afternoon in the Stadium by the score of 5 to 0, making one touchdown in the middle of the second half after Wendell had run 47 yards to the 17-yard line. The contest was essentially a clean, fiercely played game of football, but the score fails to indicate the relative strength of the two elevens. Without a doubt the University team put up the best game this season, and although Captain Foster was unable to play, the secondary defense showed the same improvement...