Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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During the opening minutes of the game neither team seemed to have the advantage, but gradually by superior team work and better passing the Freshmen carried the play into their opponents' territory, where it remained almost continually during the remainder of the contest. The first period closed with the Freshmen 1 goal to their credit. In the second half the 1919 men started off in a whirlwind fashion and scored four goals before play ended. The star playing of the Freshmen was done by Merrill and Phinney, each of whom scored two goals and took a conspicuous part...
Yale and Princeton meet on the St. Nicholas rink in New York in the first game of their hockey series this evening. The Tigers, judging by past performances, are the favorites in the contest, since they defeated the Yale seven two out of three practice games in Pittsburgh during the Christmas vacation...
Aside from the interest attached to any major athletic contest with so formidable an opponent, the dual crew race on Lake Carnegie on April 20 brings Yale, Princeton, and Harvard a step nearer to a complete triangular system. With the remembrance of the University's defeat by Princeton in the Charles River Basin in 1913, the race will rank close to the fixed annual event in its importance. The contest, followed at intervals of a month by the meeting of Yale and Princeton and by the Harvard Yale regatta, will also offer a basis for judging the strength...
...especially urgent that Freshmen interested in this sport should enter the contest, as the present plans for a Freshman team will only be carried out if sufficient interest is shown in the meet this afternoon. Provided enough men respond, a regular schedule of outside games will be arranged...
...making the award the chairman commented on the high character of the speaking done by both sides and expressed the opinion that the debate was the best interclass contest ever held. The one fault in the match was a tendency of both wings to avoid the point at issue, due to the faculty wording of the proposition, in which many loopholes were found. The affirmative stated that there were three possible courses open to the United States: either to continue the policy of exportation of arms and foodstuffs, or to place an embargo on such exportation, or to enter...