Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first football game between Harvard and Yale was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875, and was won by Harvard by four goals to none. About 150 Harvard students journeyed from Cambridge to witness the contest, and were commented on as "the biggest crowd from Boston ever seen in New Haven." Mr. Parks H. Davis in his book on football gives a very interesting account of the game, of which a few excerpts are printed below...
...game which takes place in the Stadium represents an interesting contrast to the game which Harvard played forty-one years ago against McGill University. This game, played on Jarvis Field in May, 1874, was the first intercollegiate contest under Rugby rules. It resulted in a scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that date, that "under...
Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 49,000 spectators today...
...University chess team will meet the Yale chess team in the game room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock. Ten matches will be played in all and a close contest is expected. Last year the University team tied the Elis 5 to 5 but this year Yale comes to Cambridge without several of last year's men while the University team is composed almost entirely of veterans. In the last fifteen years the club has lost but once to Yale. The names of the men and the order of the matches are as follows: (1), A. S. Ellenberger...
...consisted simply of a fast signal drill. Guernsey was given a short work-out at drop-kicking and performed consistently well. The coaches announced today that Allen would start the Harvard game at end-rush instead of Weidman, as the latter's injury will keep him out of the contest...