Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton's overconfidence in the first part of the game lost them, a field goal and it was Harvard's superior strategy that gained the winning three points in the second half. The contest was hard fought throughout, and gave the team many valuable lessons to aid them in vanquishing Yale on the twenty-fifth. Great credit is due the victorious team and once again Houghton is proved the greatest of all football coaches...
...This is the first big league football I've seen," remarked Mr. Sunday, "and indeed the only football I've ever witnessed was the recent, Colgate-Syracuse contest. Now this is the real stuff; this is class...
...versatile attack and an impregnable defence, Brown was able to decisively defeat Yale Saturday by a 21 to 6 score. But this defeat cannot be regarded as a just criterion of Yale's true strength, for the latter team, unwilling to risk its regulars, used eighteen players in the contest. These second-string men, however, were no match for the fast Brown aggregation, when open play was started...
While Harvard and Princeton are battling for victory today, Cambridge and Oxford are fighting Heidelberg. We settle our contest on a grassy field surrounded by enthusiastic, happy people; they are struggling in blood-stained trenches, haggard and worn, awaiting death. Between the halves of the game a collection will be taken up for the Harvard Surgical Unit, whose members are going across the water to alleviate the sufferings of university men engaged in a more serious struggle. If all stop to think what purpose their contributions will serve, the amount of the collection cannot help being worthy of the throng...
...University football team has won six games and lost one, but the machine, developed after the check by Tufts, has yet to be defeated. The victory of the Medford team was undoubtedly due in great measure to the fact that it had prepared for many days for the contest with the University, while Coach Leary had not made any more than the usual preparations for a so-called "minor" college team. Tufts proved to be anything but a "minor" college eleven and showed the fallacy of placing so early on the schedule a team which is likely to prove...