Word: contestant
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...This contest has been arranged this year for the first time, and is of interest as the University team will compete therein against two colleges (Yale and Pennsylvania) which the team will subsequently fence in the annual intercollegiate meet to be held April 1, at the New York Athletic Club...
...University Fencing team, composed of H. W. Holmes 1G., captain, A. Tyng '04, and W. MacLeod '05, was defeated by Cornell at Ithaca last night by the score of five bouts to four. The matches were closely fought and the entire contest was an exhibition of excellent fencing. MacLeod did the best work for Harvard...
...University fencing team will meet Cornell at Ithaca tonight in a practice meet preparatory to the intercollegiate contest in New York on April 1 and 2. The three men of each team will fence with the three of the opposing team, making nine bouts in all. Cornell, for the last three years, has been strong in the intercollegiate meets, and has made a satisfactory showing in her competitions this year. Captain W. F. Bowman is perhaps the strongest member of the team, having won several first places in New York contests. The University team defeated Cornell last year...
Having won all of its games this season, the University team will enter the final contest as winner of the preliminary series, with the Yale team, which has lost one game, second...
...nothing has been arranged regarding an international intercollegiate tournament with Oxford and Cambridge; but if sufficient funds can be raised to meet the expenses of the contest, it is probable that a challenge will be sent...