Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman hockey team wound up a very successful season on Saturday by decisively defeating the Yale 1919 seven, 6 to 1, in the New Haven arena. The final outcome of the contest was in doubt only once, at the beginning of the second period when the Yale team started a spirited rally and bombarded the Freshman goal again and again, although only successful in getting a single goal into the cage...
...Marshall was back again in the line-up after a fall suffered Wednesday at the Arena when he struck his head violently against the side of the rink during practice. R. H. Kissel, the Freshman captain, was temporarily out of the game in order to rest for the contest with Yale Saturday. The team is rapidly rounding into form under direction of Coach Paul Smart '14, and will be ready for its hardest battle of the season at New Haven Saturday afternoon...
...general way" because the point has been raised that several good men might compete for the same position, which only one could get, while another managership contest might be entirely devoid of capable material. For this reason the Student Council and the Athletic Committee have passed the following resolution...
...because he is surpassed by someone of exceptional ability. By the terms of the resolution he may then, by vote of the managers, enter late a competition in another sport which has already started. Having been discussed by the managers, he is a marked man. He enters the new contest under advantageous conditions. This is the first step in introducing partiality. When two or more capable men meet defeat in the first competition, further complications arise. For then, jockeying and bartering will occur among the managers for their further allotment...
Last year the University was defeated by Pennsylvania by a matter of a few inches in this race, and next Monday the contest between these two exceedingly fast teams should prove equally close and will offer a chance to make up for last year's defeat...