Word: contestant
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Although Harvard has defeated Carlisle nine times in sucession, the score last year being 23 to 11, this game is never considered an easy one. This year the contest will be an unusually hard one on account of the versatility and skill of the Indian eleven in the use of the new plays. The Carlisle team is considerably lighter than last year, and correspondingly faster, circumstances which should materially increase then gaining power if they can keep possession of the ball. So far this season Carlisle has been beaten but once, losing to the Pennsylvania State College eleven...
...Smith '08, with a handicap of 220 yards, easily won the two-mile run, but the contest of second place was very close. W. G. Howard '07, and M. S. Crosby '08 both started from scratch and ran close together throughout the race. On the home stretch, however, Crosby passed his competitor and won by yard...
...high jumping contest held yesterday in the Stadium was won by R. G. Harwood '09, handicap 2 1-2 in., height, 5 ft. 8 in.; second, R. P. Pope '10, handicap, 4 in., height, 5 ft. 8 in. Harwood won the cup for the event with 13 points...
...shot-putting contest held yesterday in the Stadium was won by B. T. Stephenson, Jr., '08; second, W. M. Bird '08. Distance, 41 ft., 1 in. Stephenson won the cup for the event with 11 points. Owing to lack of entries the last of the hammer-throwing contests, scheduled for yesterday, was cancelled. H. E. Kersburg '07 won the cup for the event with 10 points...
...usual the sprint squad is the largest. The men have been practicing starts and most of them have had 100-yard time trials. The other track squads are not so far advanced. The weekly contests in the field events have proved very successful, not only through the interest aroused by the element of competition, but also on account of the opportunity afforded the coaches of watching the men in actual contest. At the end of the season prizes will be given to the men winning the most points in each of the events. First place counts 5 points, second...