Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House callers of the week include: contestants in the International Oratorical Contest and a delegation of railroad ticket agents, to be introduced; onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio to report the progress of himself and colleagues on the U. S. prosecution of oil litigation (see p. 11) and to ask for $100,000 to meet expenses; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Costa Rica, to pay respects...
...spectator the Dartmouth game means an exciting spectacular contest. To the Harvard player it means a clean hard fought game in which sudden off tackle plays, and powerful end runs require herculean defensive efforts and in which the fear of long forward passes caught by fleet, sure fingered ends is ever present...
...relations with Dartmouth in 1922 after a break of 11 years. During that interval Harvard teams had reached a high peak of efficiency and reputation, and The Big Green teams had also fought their way to a top notch ranking, It was, then with anticipations of a hard-fought contest that the spectators filled the Stadium in 1922. Nor were they disappointed, for from start to finish the game was replete with thrills. With the score 6 to 3 in favor of Harvard, and only a few minutes to play, Dartmouth started a march into Harvard territory. A Dartmouth score...
...early days of Harvard-Dartmouth football were consistently disastrous to the representatives of the Big Green. From 1884, when the first gridiron contest between the two colleges was held on Soldiers Field to the beginning of the present century the elevens which issued forth annually from the New Hampshire hills to tackle the Crimson of Cambridge returned home empty handed...
...deadlocks, a Harvard, and then a Dartmouth victory, preceded five straight Crimson wins which led up to the break of 1912. The contest in this year, the last before relations were resumed in 1922, was one of those seesaw affairs, with both teams fighting bitterly for an advantage, which finally came to Harvard through the talented toe of C. E. Brickley '15. Something in the way the Dartmouth forwards handled Brickley after one of his other attempts at a field goal which went wide of its mark, or a desire to put Cornell on the Crimson schedule...