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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University golfers suffered defeat in only one match when Murphy of Holy Cross defeated Dwight Barnum '27 in a closely fought contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON GOLFERS DEFEAT HOLY CROSS | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

...Sophomores larrupped three Junior pitchers to win 14 to 0 in the class league contest yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES DOWN 1930 IN ELEVEN INNING TILT | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

...survey of athletic contests of last year and to date this year shows that the Harvard-Yale competition is much keener than popular opinion would allow. The edge in victories actually rests with Harvard. Each university can claim three major sport victories, with one tie contest. In the lesser sport engagements, the Crimson holds a 9 to 8 margin of success, with one meeting tied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURVEY OF HARVARD-YALE CONTESTS GIVES MARGIN OF SUCCESS TO CRIMSON | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

...films taken of Roger Follansbee '30, and H. A. Lewis Jr. '28, have been chosen, by the judges of the film contest being conducted by the First National Pictures and College Humor to enter the finals along with 38 others. Of the pictures taken in most of the large colleges and universities in the country 300 were selected and sent on to Hollywood where this semifinal selection has been completed. On May 23 the final ten will be chosen from these 40 by the executives of the First National Pictures in conjunction with important newspaper syndicate men from magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO HARVARD MEN REACH FINALS OF FILM CONTEST | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

John McCormick, who has been managing this campaign, has stated that the contest has met with as great a success as he had hoped and that this new innovation may mark a new era in the history of moving pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO HARVARD MEN REACH FINALS OF FILM CONTEST | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

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