Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This set of races is the first contest of the kind ever entered by members of the club. The new Cartis Travelair plane, the fastest ship in its class, was taken as par in the light plane handicap. It passed several planes which started ahead of it, and took third prize...
...undergraduate at a small New England college I have many times shouted myself hoarse as The Team came through with a hard-earned victory over a supposedly superior rival; and more often have I similarly cheered on The Team to the inevitable end of a hopeless contest as, outweighed many pounds to a man, worn out by the innumerable fresh substitutes of the opposition, exhausted by four periods of fighting against overwhelming odds, they have crawled of their hands and knees to the scrimmage line, put up a desperate stonewall defense in the shadow of the posts and prevented...
...summary of the Harvard-Purdue contest follows...
...University goals were made in the first period and three in the second. One of the features of the contest was an unassisted goal in the first period which Louis Kerness '29 accounted for with an accurate back-kick. Kerness scored again the second period, N. r. Danielian '28 also scored twice and J. E. Keefe '28 made the fifth goal...
...results of that experiment have redounded to the unqualified credit of its inception. There is no gauge by which one may indicate how great was the pleasure of men who played class football because there is no yardstick to measure the joy of athletic contest...