Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team playing an ineligible man shall forfeit the contest in which that man was played...
...game was a hard-fought contest from start to finish and the players clung to each other so closely and were so aggressive in intercepting passes that little opportunity was given for team play. Several times after Griffiths and Burnham had by clever dodging, dribbled the ball the length of the floor, no one was able to free himself to try for a goal. Griffiths missed every free try in the first half, but in the second half steadied down and threw eight. Amberg did the most brilliant shooting, and scored two very difficult shooting, and scored two very difficult...
...second team played a hard, rough game, but lacked initiative on the offense, and failed to make the most of many openings. The discouraging part of the practice was the disregard by both teams of the minor rules of the game which would result in penalities in a regular contest. Griffiths is still very uncertain on free tries, and scored but three out of a possible ten baskets...
...game has lost its just proportions by the introduction of mercantile standards, and as a corrective, I advocate the abolition of gate-receipts. I do not see why a match game between students of competing colleges should not be played before invites guests, as in the Army-Navy contest. When a single game between Harvard and Yale brings in gate-receipts of $80,000, I think that commercialism has found good soil for propagating serious evils. Respectfully submitted, LORIN F. DELAND...
...split arose from the refusal of the officials of the New York Athletic Association and the New York Fencers' Club to judge another round robin tournament, on the ground that such a contest is too hard on the men involved. F. Lage, captain of the Columbia team, then proposed a tournament by elimination, which would necessitate the admission of two new colleges to the association. This was in accordance with the wishes of Captain Tyng of the University Fencing team, who moved that according to a by-law of the association, Technology be admitted on a two years' probation...