Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior-Cambridge Latin contest the schoolboys got off to a flying start in the first half and scored one touchdown, the try for point going wide. In the second half the Seniors came back and blocked a punt which C. R. Turney '28 turned into a touchdown...
...injury jinx reappeared at Soldiers Field yesterday when G. E. Donaghy '29, substitute halfback, who started against Dartmouth last Saturday and starred with his punting throughout the game, reported with a leg injury which will definitely keep him on the sidelines in the Indiana contest this week...
...football squad reported yesterday for the first practice since Saturday's rout before the flying Dartmouth eleven. Further indications that the Crimson will be represented in full strength in the Indiana game next Saturday came in the fact that the three players who were kept out of the Dartmouth contest on account of injuries were all in uniform yesterday...
...office boy with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Strange office boy, he wanted to investigate art and for this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five years was managing editor, at an age when many young men are beginning to admit failure. His later years were devoted to the Baltimore Evening...
...Friedman, great Michigan quarterback of 1926, and Eddie Dooley, 1926 quarterback-poet from Dartmouth, played against each other for the first time last week. Meeting in a Manhattan hotel, they fell to discussing the forward pass, gesticulated, went to the Polo Grounds to suit action to words. In friendly contest, Friedman, running, threw the ball more accurately at a given target. Dooley, long of arm and flat of hand, seized the ball and threw it from midfield over the cross bar of the goal posts. Friedman tried, fell short...