Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rowing prospects at Yale this year are good, as five of last year's university crew and three of last year's four-oar are still in college. A number of promising men from last year's freshman crew are also expected to make a strong contest for positions in the university boat...
...Senior and Junior hockey teams will play their second game in the interclass series this afternoon at 3.30 on Jarvis Field. If the Seniors win this contest they will have earned the right to play the winning team in the Sophomore-Freshman series...
This will be Harvard's first important contest. The team has now been practising almost constantly for over a month and is in much better condition than it was at this time last year. The team work as it appeared in the practice yesterday is admirable, and from a consideration of the strong individual players of which the team is composed, Harvard's chances of success seem extremely good. The place of Goodridge, who will not play tonight, owing to a protest from Columbia, will be filled by Lovering, a hard, aggressive, but inexperienced player. Owing to this change...
...boxing, and his word that he had never received a cent which would in any way impugn his amateur standing was accepted. The part of our rule under which the decision was rendered reads as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood." Additional evidence has only recently been sent to Harvard in the shape of a receipted bill showing conclusively that Mr. Cutts had been paid in 1899 for giving boxing lessons...
Twelve candidates for the gymnastic team are now working daily in the Gymnasium under the direction of Mr. Dohs. Considerable improvement in the work is already evident and if the team can be rounded into good condition before March, a joint exhibition or contest with Yale and Columbia will be held...