Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football games during my cadet days, between Harvard and West Point. In those days Harvard was always the visiting team, since the cadet team and the Corps left their home grounds only for the annual struggle with the Navy. We were always sure of a clean, sportsman-like contest, and the games with Harvard were close enough to be intensely exciting, but with the edge usually, I must confess, on the side of the Crimson...
This unique contest is an interesting way of providing competition between three class teams, and at the same time giving the Seconds opportunity to meet different combinations on attack and defense. Coach Knox's Seconds have been busy during the last week putting on Army plays for the benefit of Team A, and today's fracas with the class teams will be the last workout for the week. On Monday they will receive their assignments for work with the University team in preparation for the Dartmouth game...
...harriers will enter their second meet, against the New Hampshire Freshmen at the same time and place as the University contest. In leading position for the first year men will be F.S. Murphy '33, who took first position in the meet against Holy Cross last Saturday...
...play. Hewitt is one of the best looking backs Columbia has sent on the field since the halcyon days of Morley and Weekes. He, too, is a marvelous running back and the duel between the Green and Light Blue stars should produce plenty of fireworks for spectators at this contest. BY TIME...
...game itself," said Mr. Fisher, "I have frankly told Bill Bingham, the Harvard director of athletics, that if Texas has a good team in 1931, the game will be no set-up, but a real contest. He realizes that this is true, especially if Texas 'points' for the game. As to the game and the final score, I just hope the better team will win on merit, not on flukes or fumbles. The possibility of the score doesn't interest me so much as the fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university...