Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that definite arrangements have been completed for a gridiron contest between Harvard and the University of Michigan in 1929 will occasion little surprise among those who have followed the University's football policy for the last few years. The plan of making the Yale game the only permanent one on the Harvard schedule and of rotating all other opponents was definitely established by the Harvard athletic authorities last year and in general has worked successfully. The signing of a two year, home-and-home agreement with Michigan to replace Pennsylvania on the first November Saturday is a logicallstep...
...changed: no school preparing less than seven boys for college was allowed to enter the competition, and no longer was the competing school required to send any of its boys to Harvard. Moreover, the standing of the several schools in the records made by all the graduates in the contest was to be determined not by a given year, but by the achievement of the best seven from each school. The rating of the teams is based upon the highest average obtained in four College Entrance Examinations on subjects chosen by each of the team's seven members...
...paring down of the University hockey squad to its fighting strength, and the announcement of a contest between graduate sextets of Harvard and Dartmouth on Thursday constituted the news that filtered out of the Crimson ice camp yesterday...
...Union's annual prize essay contest will close on March 1, if was an nounced by the graduate secretary of the Union last night. All essays must contain no more than 2500 words. Prizes of $35 and $13 will be awarded to the winners of the competition...
Please give us plenty of news about this fellow Thompson. He's a WOW! Can't you somehow get him and Epstein together in a grammar writing contest...