Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most promising feature of the contest was Harvard's strong interference. While slower in forming than it should be, it was very potent once it got started, and altogether excellent for so early in the season. When it is considered that the eleven is still in its infancy in this department, which does not reach its greatest efficiency until late, the prospects for a powerful attack are unusually bright...
...Michigan contest is arousing much interest in the West. Michigan, which was a close rival with Chicago for the leadership of the conference before its withdrawal in 1905, ranks very near the top among the middle western teams. The outcome of the game may therefore be fairly taken as indicating the respective merits of eastern and western football. Because Michigan is a more representative institution, the clash with Harvard will be more significant in this respect than the contest between Notre Dame and the Army, or between Notre Dame and Yale...
Yale meets the University of Maine in her first contest. The game will be watched with interest because of the unexpected defeat which the Blue eleven met from the hands of this same team last year...
...Yale University crew won from Harvard on the Thames on June 19, in what has been termed the most remarkable rowing contest ever seen on American waters. The margin of victory was so small that stop-watches could not measure it. The judges at the finish were in doubt as to the actual amount of Yale's lead, placing it between three feet and a few inches, but were agreed that Yale had won. The crowds in the observation trains and on the water were divided in opinion until the final announcement of the referee...
During the major part of the contest, Harvard was pulling the slower stroke. Although the men had been coached to row the entire four miles at 33, Stroke Chanler found that the men were not quite together at that pace. To get rythm and life into the boat, it became necessary to drop the stroke until it finally stood at 28. Appleton, on the other hand, worked his men evenly at 32 for practically the entire distance...