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Word: contestant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the contest will be close can be forecasted from comparative scores. Worcester lost a close game to Exeter and barely nosed out Andover. Both of these teams have beaten the Freshmen by last minute rallies. These two defeats are the only ones the Freshmen have suffered this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN MEET WORCESTER FIVE ON HEMENWAY COURT | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...Michigan," but the only idea concerning athletics at Michigan which can rightfully be claimed by Little is the woefully impractical and weak idea of the University having two football teams. Some real enthusiasm might have been engendered had the Big Ten Universities all put Freshmen football teams into contest with each other (since Freshmen cannot play upon the regular teams), but to expect a Michigan "B" team to create much interest when playing some other university's "B" team is, as was proven last Fall, impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Sweeping through all opposition, the University polo team defeated the Danvers Riding Club trio, 17 1-2 to 7 1-2, in an unusually interesting contest, at the Commonwealth Armory, last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARK BROTHERS LEAD HARVARD TRIO TO WIN | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...minutes after the starting whistle had blown, E. T. Gerry '31 drove in the initial goal. G. O. Clark '31 followed up with another tally immediately afterward, and a Harvard pony kicked in the third score of the contest a few minutes later from a scrimmage in front of the Danvers goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARK BROTHERS LEAD HARVARD TRIO TO WIN | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...first quarter of the contest was loosely played and at the end of it each team had piled up 12 points. Hebron depended on a fast offense, laying little stress on its defense; consequently Harvard had jumped into a six point lead when the whistle blew for the intermission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN WEEKEND SPORT SUMMARIES | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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