Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shoot will be for 1000 points, each man having ten shots at ten targets at a distance of 50 feet. Freshmen and all others who have not yet won a cup are eligible. Entries can be made in the baseball cage tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock, and the contest will start immediately. The man getting the highest out of the 1000 possible points will be awarded...
Then came the Princeton contest, in which the line seemed to have lost all the ground that it had won, and in which victory was registered only through the scant margin of one drop-kick. The Princeton attack punctured the forwards so frequently that it was only the wonderful work of the secondary defense, and of Bradlee in particular, that staved off dangerous gains. Not until the team was almost in the shadow of its own goal did the line show determination enough to hold the Tigers to even terms...
...Today's contest on Soldiers Field represents the very latest development in intercollegiate football. Thirty-nine years ago Harvard played McGill University in the first intercollegiate game under Rugby rules. The game was played on Jarvis Field, May 15, 1874, and resulted in a scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that date, that, "under...
Little attention was paid this contest by the general public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 47,000 spectators today...
...press immediately after the game this afternoon. This issue will contain a detailed account of the game, scores of all the leading teams for the season, statistics of the players, pictures of Captain Storer and Ketcham, a picture of a scrimmage in the first intercollegiate football contest in the United States under the present rules that between McGill and Harvard in 1874--a picture of the Yale "Bowl" as it will look when completed, and articles both on it and on the development of intercollegiate football...