Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Living Room of the Union was crowded by about 700 members Saturday afternoon who watched each play of the Harvard-Princeton football contest, from the CRIMSON's direct wire from the Palmer Stadium. A blackboard gridiron was set up on the platform so that each play could be shown. At intervals the Union orchestra played football songs and popular music, and the enthusiasm in the Living Room was almost as great as the enthusiasm of the eye witnesses...
Many important games are scheduled for today, although all are over-shadowed by the Harvard-Princeton contest. Chief in interest is the Yale-Brown game, these two elevens opposing the University in the last two games of the year. Brown, after an unpromising start has developed rapidly, defeating Williams and Vermont with ease and holding Syracuse to a 6 to 0 score. Yale's showing will be closely followed, for the blue team has gone through a complete re-organization this week...
...first big intersectional contest of the year, Cornell will, oppose Michigan at Ann Arbor. The former has had little hard work since the Harvard game, Virginia Polytechnic affording no real test last Saturday. Michigan has suffered two defeats in her last games, Michigan "Aggies" and Syracuse gaining the victories. Cornell should experience little difficulty in keeping her slate of victories clear...
Time trials were held at Belmont yesterday and the following men were selected for the University cross-country team to go to New Haven for Saturday's contest: R. W. Babcock '17, G. R. Bancroft '17, H. R. Bechtel '17, R. S. Cook '17, R. H. Davison '17, K. E. Fuller '16, G. A. King '18, C. J. North '17, R. T. Twitchell '16 (captain), W. P. Whitehouse '17, and H. L. M. Cole '16 (substitute...
There is little, if any, of the college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...