Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Stiff opposition to the Crimson runners is expected today when the track season opens with a combined University and Freshman track meet against M. I. T. in the Stadium at 3.30 o'clock. It will be the first contest of the year for the University team, and there is considerable doubt as to just how the squad will show up. The 1921 men, however, with a decisive victory over Andover last Saturday to their credit, will unquestionably make a good showing...
Neither M. I. T. nor the University management has made any definite entries for the various events as yet. As the meet is to take more or less the form of a practice contest, a large number of entrants will probably be allowed in each event...
...playing Tufts on Divinity Field, the 1921 tennis men will meet the Browne and Nichols School team at 3 o'clock at Jarvis Field. The Freshmen have won their first three matches played against English High School, Exeter, and Milton Academy by safe margins, and since their last contest have shown steady improvement that should make them strong contenders for this afternoon's honors...
...held on the Charles the afternoon of May 25 have assumed a form of finality with the receipt of confirmation from New Haven that Yale has agreed to the advancing of the second University crew race from June 1 to the day of the regatta. As originally planned, the contest between the two second crews was to have taken place at Cambridge on the same day that the first eights rowed at New Haven. The new arrangement, however, is now assured by the Yale rowing management's acquiescence, as approval has been informally expressed by the athletic committees of both...
...feature of the regatta will be the race between the University and Yale 1921 boats over the mile and seven-eighths course. Next in interest will rank the contest over the same distance between the second crews of those uni-equities. There will also be a clash between the Eliot and Thayer club crews, which will be made up of men from the lower University boats. Such a division has already been tentatively made from members of the third and fourth eighths, but Coach Brown has not yet settled on a definite seating order. In addition to the races...