Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects of a change before the regatta next June, it is confidently expected that Cornell's renewed agitation will result in the change. Coach Courtney of Cornell and Coach Rice of Columbia are much in favor of the proposed shortening of the course, as they regard the four-mile contest too much of a strain. Coach Vivian Nickalls of Pennsylvania, however, believes that the shorter race would only mean rowing three miles proportionally faster and as a result with more likelihood of injury...
...Yale on the Yale soccer held this morning at 10.15 o'clock. The squad left yesterday afternoon for New Haven, and spent last night at Hotel Heublien in Hartford. This morning they leave for New Haven at 8.20 o'clock, arriving just before the game. This is the fourth contest for the University in the season's championship series. After the game the team will disband, the men returning to Cambridge tonight or tomorrow...
Afraid of new injuries to the University team, Coach Haughton sent an entirely second string eleven on the field to contest with Brown. Friction in the mechanism of the attack used by the University substitutes deprived the team of the greater part of its efficiency, and a deplorable mediocrity in the drop-kicking department spoiled whatever chances the second string men had to score. Brown played a conservative and dogged game, holding the University to a 0 to 0 tie score, because of the perseverance of their defence and the brilliant playing of Gordon and Clark in the backfield...
...team did not play up to the brilliant promises of the previous week in the contest with Virginia, but a fortunate forward pass and the splendid work of the backfield brought victory to Yale, 21 to 0. A marked weakness in the extremities of the line was evidenced, the southerners gaining considerable ground on wide end runs...
Using straight football Yale defeated Brown, 14 to 6, in their annual contest. The latter eleven showed unexpected strength in all branches of the game, and the Yale substitutes were forced to their limit to nose out a victory...