Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball team will engage in its twenty-first game this afternoon when it meets the Rhode Island State nine on Soldiers Field. The contest is scheduled to start at 3 o'clock...
Such an offspring of the contest introduced this spring was not at all foreseen by the sporting prognosticators, to whom the derided "scholastic meet" was food for no little amount of ridicule. The glory of victory in this type of combat is indeed not of the strike-up-the-band manner; nor is it to be placed among any categories of the past. It is, like the contest itself, of more subtle stuff, and the exchange of thoughts and progress between universities is not the least of its merits...
...game with the championship Yale class team was called off on account of rain, although the class squad had journeyed to New Haven for the contest...
Hooverites thrilled last week, to hear the voice of the busy Beaver Man, himself, coming to them over the radio. It was not that he said very much?just a few well-chosen words spoken in Washington in connection with a national oratorical contest for school children which was won by one James R. Moore, 17, of Somerset...
...Yale quartet has been rained out in its past two games. The new field was to have been dedicated in a contest with the Army on May 18, which was cancelled on account of the weather. Then a match with Pennsylvania Military College last Saturday was called off for the same reason, so that today's tilt will be the opener in outdoor intercollegiate polo at New Haven...