Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale has come, high in the prospects of victory, and has gone, with hopes justified and fulfilled. Before a crowd which resembled more that of a minor contest than of a great intercollegiate game, her team has shown itself superior and has carried off a well-earned victory. Concerning what has passed, we do not begrudge Yale men their fortune. We have no excuse to make nor alibis to offer. A season which began favorably with a Princeton victory has taken an unfavorable turn. There is but one answer which our team can make. It will require a great deal...
Saturday's game marked the last contest in which several of the University players will appear. No future efforts will serve to offset what defeat has brought them. They have entered a larger service than athletic activity. As they go, Harvard honors them and their leader, who have contributed so much toward establishing war-time sport and who now no longer participate in that which they have so created...
Except for their setback in the week's game with the Radio School, the Freshmen have a clean record for the season. Today will mark their first important contest...
...first time in over a year, Harvard meets Yale today in a formal athletic contest. It will be no great intercollegiate game, but rather one which exemplifies the new spirit of athletic relations. It will not be heralded by the great preparations of previous years. It will be characterized, on the contrary, not only by friendly intercollegiate rivalry, but by a genuine feeling of sport for sport's sake...
...Yale-Harvard game. The teams are equal in strength; the spirit is there; the undergraduates feel that the time for adding to our string of victories has again come. We welcome Yale as our guests. With many of our best men leaving next week for Government service, today's contest affords the undergraduate the one big game of the season. At no time in the near future will intercollegiate athletics be on as high a plane as now. Where today our team already feels the loss of many, next week will see a considerable decrease in its strength,. Let everyone...