Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year began with the annual intercollegiate golf and tennis tournaments in September. In the former event, the University won individual honors and finished second to Princeton in the team matches. Tennis resulted in the doubles title coming here, Princeton defeating Harvard in the singles. In the first dual contest of the year with Yale, the cross-country team nosed out a victory, 27 to 28, and later took second place in the intercollegiate run, Yale finishing third. Football brought the first major sport victory. On the same day the soccer team likewise scored a victory...
...straight games being taken by scores of 4 to 2 and 3 to 1. The long distance relay team won the annual race at the B. A. A. The first set-back was received in wrestling, Yale winning 13 to 4. The Yale fencers then won the dual contest 5 to 4, but in the intercollegiate meet, the University team turned the tables, defeating Yale 6 to 3, and finishing fourth while Yale ended sixth. Although not meeting the University in a dual contest, the Yale gymnastic team proved its superiority by winning the intercollegiate meet. The swimming teams...
...season, at the hands of Huntington, whose players had no difficulty in pounding out a 9 to 3 victory. The high water mark of the 1918 season was reached in the next game, when Hitchcock shut out the strong Worcester Academy nine. The slump began after this contest, and three games in succession were dropped to Exeter, Andover, and Dean Academy by scores of 3 to 0, 6 to 4, and 4 to 1, respectively. A temporary brace was taken in the Pilgrim's game, the 1918 team winning 12 to 10, but in the final contest of the year...
...Cornell, however, the University team struck a snag on May 15, and lost its first contest of the season, 6 to 3. Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 and W. W. Mansfield '15 won in the singles, and Williams and Caner secured a victory in the doubles. The match with Pennsylvania, scheduled for May 21, had to be cancelled on account of rain. On May 25, Princeton took 7 of the 9 matches. The game had been postponed twice, and the University players had had no practice to keep them in form. Williams made up for his defeat...
...balls. Both made wild pitches, Pumpelly hit a batter and Spielman made a balk. These faults by the pitching staff, added to a total of twenty-one errors for the two nines, made the game the least interesting of the series between the two Universities. By winning Saturday's contest, Yale took the three-game series without a defeat, having previously won the first two games...