Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale squad is being driven hard, for despite the stiff contest with Washington and Jefferson last Saturday, the first team was put through a long signal drill on Monday. Four of the injured players returned to the game yesterday, and took part in the practice. They were Braden, Callahan, Vorys and Carter. Braden will start as halfback against Colgate Saturday...
...contest for the campaign slogan, best suited to be printed on a banner and carried in the parade, is still open, and the wordings should be submitted to W. O. P. Morgan '18 at Randolph 59 before Wednesday at 6 o'clock. A prize of $5 for the best, $3 for the second best and $2 for the third best is offered by the Republican Club...
...first big game of the season is to be played today. With the memory of last year's contest against Cornell vividly in mind, a close and hard struggle is assured. The fact that Coach Haughton has had complete charge of the team for the last two weeks will be evident during the very first period of this afternoon's game. Moreover, Harvard's football team never forgets a defeat. These two factors will play an important part in convincing our fiends from Ithaca that two consecutive victories are more easily prophesied than...
Within the silent sanctity of the Union the Harvard team will sit, doughty warriors of many a bygone contest, pondering deep in thought, while the cheering thousands hang breathless on their move. The decision will be made amid tumultuous joy, the eager operators will flash the word to No Man's Land; while on roofs, in trees, on catboats, in the highest mountain tops and to the far corners of the cornerless earth, uncounted receivers will take up the word, and follow the victorious play...
...similar way the club crews will contest for the Filley Cup, now in the possession of the Eliot Club. The winning first crew will obtain four points, the winning second three, and the winning third two. In case the winning crew is lapped by its opponent, that crew forfeits one point to that opponent...