Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...twenty-third annual football contest between Harvard and Yale was played on Soldiers Field today in the new Stadium, which was used for the first time in an important contest. The almost total absence of wind, the bright sunlight and the crisp air, formed weather conditions that were perfect for a spirited contest. The crowd of 40,000 spectators which began to fill the immense stands for more than an hour before the game, occupied every available space and made a sight of unusual impressiveness...
...final game for the interclass championship will be played this afternoon between the Seniors and Sophomores at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field. The records of the two teams point to a hard contest...
...game between the Sophomore and Freshman football teams on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon resulted in a tie score of 0 to 0. A driving rain which fell throughout the game, combined with the darkness and the interference by the spectators in the second half, made the contest very unsatisfactory. With two exceptions, the Freshman team was composed of substitutes...
...final heats of the single scull and wherry races were rowed yesterday afternoon. The courses were the same as the day before and were rowed down stream, on account of the expressed preference of the competitors. In the single scull race E. E. Smith 1L., won a very close contest from M. King, Jr., '04, who finished about 8 feet behind him. Both, men rowed well, and, although Smith led for most of the course, the outcome was uncertain until the very last. In spite of the fact that there was a slight tide against him, Smith covered the course...
...October. 1902, on a college team as a member of the college, and then entered the University of Pennsylvania. There seemed to be no controversy about the facts. The rule affecting these cases is as follows: 'No student of the university, who has ever played in any intercollegiate contest, upon a team of any other college or university, shall represent the university until he has resided one academic year at the university, and has attained in the annual examinations upon an academic year's work a satisfactory standing of scholarship...