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Word: contestant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contest won't be entirely forgotten, though. Captain Sam Savidge has announced the team will play the remainder Wednesday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Lead B.C. as Wind Stops Match | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...meeting tonight, the twelve lettermen will elect the 1948-49 leader, unless, as scattered rumors predict, they decide the choose a game captain for each contest. This procedure was used by the football team last full after Captain Vince Morvec's injury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lettermen Will Elect '48-'49 Basketball Captain Tonight | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

From the very outset the Princeton game was a flasco: In the first place, an 80 minute game instead of the usual 60 minute contest was played. This was quite legal, for in rugby the game may vary, with anywhere from 25 to 40 minute halves. At the end of 60 minutes of play, the score read 8-all; in the next 20 minutes the Crimson defense collapsed. The heavy Tiger scrum lorded over the Harvard forwards...

Author: By Roger H. Wilson, | Title: Ruggers Find Bermuda A Mid-Ocean Paradise | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...game, a practice contest not on the regular schedule, took place in an atmosphere of extreme cold. Ira Godin started for the Crimson and worked smoothly through his five innings, allowing two singles and no runs. Barry Turner, who took over, was loss fortunate as he gave up an immediate run in the sixth before the infield fell apart behind...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Suffolk Edges Varsity, 5-4, In Practice Diamond Game | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

Navy power and Maryland precision ruled the fields below the bison-Dixon line last week and left a Harvard lacrosse squad smarting under 13-3 and 11-0 defeats. A contest with Drexel at Philadelphia, the one the Crimson seemed most likely to win, was cancelled because of wet grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maryland, Navy Crush Out-Classed Stickmen | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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