Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Advance "dope" is of little value in a short baseball series where the teams are anywhere near evenly matched. This is especially true where the rivalry is as keen and the tension as high as in a Harvard-Yale contest. In the present season both nines have been handicapped somewhat in their development; Harvard, by the loss of Captain Ayres through sickness, Yale, by the ineligibility of Hanes. Moreover, the University was forced to swap horses in the middle of the stream, so to speak, through Dr. Sexton's resignation as coach...
...whatever the teams look like on paper, the winner is going to be the one which can "come through" in the pinches. Every world's series, every big contest, brings to light a new hero, the man who "came through" when needed. Sometimes it is the recognized star of the team who justifies his reputation. More often, it is the mediocre man who rises to the occasion. It is easy to find men who can field and bat well in practice, but the real player is the man who keeps up his high standard under the most trying conditions...
...University nine arrived here this afternoon and had a short practice on Yale Field. The entire squad in is fine shape with the exception of R. B. Frye '15 who is bothered by his ankle injured in the Princeton game. He is expected to start tomorrow's contest, however...
...next nine games resulted in nine straight victories, and when Brown broke the charm in the 7 to 3 contest on Soldiers Field, the University made a trip to Providence and evened matters up by taking an 11 to 10 slug-fest. Since then the University has eliminated Princeton and has shut out both Williams and Pennsylvania, in addition, taking extra matches from the Calumet Club and the Pilgrims...
Louis Dembitz Brandeis LL.B. '77, through the Federation of American Zionists, offers a prize of $100 and a bronze medal for the best original essay on some phase of "Jewish Life and Culture in Palestine." The contest is open to all students in any college or university of the United States or Canada and will close the first of November, 1915, at which time the judges, Professor Frankfurter, of the Law School, Professor Gottheil, of Columbia, and Judge Mack, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, will render their decision. Especial emphasis will be laid on the extent...