Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
...preparation for the Crimson contest. "Deacon", as the Army mule is known to his acquaintances, has been fattened, groomed, and clipped. His keeper admitted yesterday that "Deacon" was 12 pounds overweight. "It improves his disposition," he affirmed...
...absent when the above picture was taken, and Reid led the Crimson attack, both piercing the opposing forward wall for two touchdowns. Dribblee was the other member of the Harvard machine who crossed the last cadet white line. Cochrane and Haughton, whose punting was a feature of the contest, brought the total score to 28 with two and one points-after-touchdown apiece...
...concentrating its attack in the second period, the Crimson eleven a massed a total of 20 points to turn back the invasion of an overrated North Caroline team in Saturday's encounter in the Stadium. The contest was the second of the season, and as such revealed a development and a degree of power which gives indication of an epic battle when the veteran cadet eleven meets the Crimson next Saturday...
...Harvard Athletic Association may be gilding the lily to form a league, for when one has a league one has regular teams; and when one has teams one has percentages, and when one has percentages, one has championships. After that it is but a short step to the intercollegiate contest in touch football, which first reared its irregular-shaped head last year. Harvard's defeat of Brown at that time came as tidbit for those who prefer the deft to the desperate in sport, and who think that a lateral followed by a snap pass into the flat zone...