Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor William Howard Taft of Yale, Rear Admiral A. M. Knight, U. S. N., president of the Naval College at Newport, and Professor A. K. Kuhn, Ph.D., of Columbia University, will be the judges. This is the ninth Pugsley prize to be offered in the last five years. The contest closes March...
...Stadium this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Although the Southerners were defeated 29 to 0 by Princeton last week, they have high hopes of turning the tables this afternoon, and securing a victory over the University. That the Harvard coaches are not greatly worried over the outcome of the contest, however, is shown by the fact that the drill for the University squad this week has been unusually light, the first string men not having been sent onto the field for any hard scrimmaging until last Thursday, when the Freshmen lined up against them for the first time this season...
...team coached by men who use the Haughton system, for the North Carolina squad this year has been under the direction of T. J. Camp- bell '12 and R. R. Cowen '16, both of whom were trained by Coach Haughton. Thus the game this afternoon should prove an interesting contest between two teams similarly trained and drilled, both using the same style of football. Hard, straight-forward playing, without the use of trick plays and freak formations is what may be expected...
...substitute line-up. Wheeler, Snow and Lovell, in the line, are all strong players and tried men, while Burnham, Horween and Casey in the backfield have demonstrated their worth more than once this year. More-over, the regulars who do not appear upon the list of those beginning the contest, are all available for use, with exception of Bond and possibly Taylor, in case the necessity arises...
Such men as Mahan and Brickley were our Caesars and our generals. With them victory became synonomous with contest. Those were our palmy days when undergraduates sat in the Stadium with a feeling of assurance that defeat was outside the realm of probability...