Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chances of the team in next Saturday's contest were materially increased on Monday by the appearance on the field of Ward, tackle, and Conroy, left back, neither of whom were in the Yale game. Brown came through the Yale game without a serious injury. Purdy, quarterback, wrenched his ankle slightly, but he was out again to direct the team yesterday...
Three days having elapsed since the Yale contest, the Brown eleven has settled down to active preparation for the game in the Stadium Saturday. Well satisfied with the team's sweeping victory over Yale last Saturday, the Brown coaches did not press the team hard in Monday's practice. Yesterday, however, nearly all the players were on the field...
...players who will be more formidable against Yale than they were against the Tigers. The game was neither thrilling nor spectacular. Yet it was interesting because it was closely fought because, too, it contained a great deal of first-class football. This is not, however, to say that the contest was unmarked by poor-grade football. There was loose handling of the ball by both elevens. For the fumbling of kicks elemental conditions provided adequate excuse, but hands were inexcusably slivery in other cases. Both teams injured themselves through commission of faults calling for penalties. And the rivals indulged...
...Breaks in the game favored each contestant; but Princeton was favored to greater extent. The Tigers failed to take advantage of all their opportunities; Harvard took full advantage of one of her's and thus won the contest. Of the handling of punts in the backfield, which gave the game a sloppy look, there has been criticism--mainly unjust. For it will be noted that a large percentage of the fumbling occurred in the north section of the gridiron--the sunfield. When it is stated that players standing in this half of the field were unable to see the south...
...Harvard eleven of 1916 is no longer a green team. They have been through the stress of a very hard-fought contest against a team which was physically their equal and against a team which was playing desperate football...