Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team will prove a weakness, for each man has shown marked ability, Bovingdon and Epstein having won Pasteur medals, Sayre a Coolidge Prize, and Adams having made a creditable record at Knox College. The alternates will be selected tonight, and from now until March 27, the day of the contest, the coaches will devote their attention solely to putting on the finishing touches to the preparation for the debate...
...dual meet between the Harvard and Dartmouth Gymnastic teams has been arranged for next Saturday. The match, which will be the first between the two colleges, is to be held at Hanover, N. H., It will be the last contest for the University team until the Intercollegiates on March...
...rule of the Faculty forbids the beginning of a public athletic contest until four o'clock except on Saturday or a holiday, and until the end of the last hour of lectures or recitations on Saturday. The more important football games in the Stadium are played in November, when the afternoons are short and the height of the Stadium walls makes the sun set early. For the safety of players and spectators alike the Faculty voted that the November games, which are always on Saturday, might begin at two o'clock...
...years has been the steadily increasing friendliness and confidence of the relation between Harvard and Yale. Years ago this relation was frequently disturbed by suspicions which were often too nearly warrantable, and for which each college was no doubt in part responsible. To expect that every player in every contest will always do exactly right toward his adversary is to expect something a little beyond human nature; but in general it may be said that the games between Harvard and Yale are now among the friendliest and the cleanest, as they have long been among the most intense, of college...
...steady improvement in the work of the team is shown by the fact that the scores have risen from 880 in the first match to 917 in the recent contest with Michigan Agricultural...