Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will get under way this afternoon with the events scheduled to take place on the Charles River Basin. A 4.30 o'clock, the Junior 150-pound eights will race over a mile course, with Lothrop Withington '11 and H. W. Robbins '19, referces for the Regatta, starting this initial contest. At 15 minute intervals after the Junior event, the Senior lightweight boats and the Senior singles will get away from the mark in additional mile competitions...
...result of such an even contest for points in conceded events throws the final decision as to whether the long line of Yale victories is to be broken, into the second and third places. If Haggerty's figures hold good, a change of two points in the favor of Harvard will result in victory. On the other hand, a failure to make a clean sweep of the two mile, or to take third in the 220 or 440, will give the opponents a lead of even more than three points...
...first practically certain. C. A. Pratt '28 set a new Dartmouth dual meet record last Saturday with a heave of 44 feet and 11 and three-fourths inches. At the same time Hall of Yale was taking first against Princeton at 44 feet six and one-half inches. The contest for second place between David Guarnaccia '29, who has been doing over 44 feet, and Hall, may be one of the turning points in the scoring. First and third places seem fairly well assured, as Stone, the second Yale shotputter, is expected to give place to Guarnaccia in the scoring...
...Harvard the following week in the Charles River Basin. Two weeks ago the Yale 150-pound combination took the wash from the Cornell and Pennsylvania shells at Philadelphia, finishing a poor third. As a result, on the basis of earlier races. Princeton is conceded the advantage in tomorrow's contest...
With a record of thirteen victories and only three defeats, these at the hands of powerful nines, the Villanova baseball team travelling up from Pennsylvania for contests with several local aggregations, will clash with the Harvard diamond forces on Soldiers Field at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The late starting time, the H. A. A. announced, is an experiment to see if more spectators will be able to watch the contest...