Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prominent athletic attraction in Boston today, Tufts, with only two out of seven games played, has the advantage over her opponent, who has lost four of the eight games of her schedule. Since Tufts has her full strength again, and Syracuse has a much heavier rush line, a close contest is expected...
Fifty thousand people are expected to see the Army-Navy game at the Polo Grounds New York, N. Y., today. West Point enters the contest a slight favorite, but Annapolis is conceded to have the best chance in years. Both teams are expected to play an open game, and sensational playing on the part of Oliphant, the Army's star, is look...
...University football team meets Yale at New Haven this afternoon in the annual gridiron contest between the two universities. There is but little to choose between the two elevens. The University rules a 10 to 9 favorite in the betting odds but the only reason Yale demands this is because it fears a repetition of the result of past years, when after Yale had defeated a strong Princeton team, it fell before the Crimson. Yale won over Princeton by a larger score than that made by the University, but this is offset by the fact that Yale was able...
...Dope" Upset in Tiger Contest...
...size of Brown University and the character of its football teams warrant the respect of our best trained eleven. If the present coaching system which, by the way, is beyond criticism as regards the making of football players, believes a comparatively easy contest before the Yale game as necessary for the successful development of the team, the date of the Brown game should be earlier in the football schedule. Either give Brown a date when Harvard's strongest team can oppose her, or run the ever-present chances of injuries to our best players and play the first-string...