Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided that too much risk was attached to postponing the operation until the end of the present football season Since he entered college three years ago Daley has been the victim of a series of football injuries which has prevented his appearance in the starting lineup of any Yale contest...
...scene was a big auditorium in Washington, D. C. Some 5,000 school children were massed before the platform, rustling the flags they had brought to wave at the conclusion of President Coolidge's speech. The event was the international finals of an oratorical contest worked up by leading U. S. newspapers to promote, not the art of oratory, but the interest of young people in the science of government. As President Coolidge had explained after being introduced by Mr. Hammond: "It will be a help to the youth of different nations to learn of the benefits which each...
...Roper of Princeton has a letter from a loyal alumnus of '98 suggesting that the game of football would be improved vastly if the captain were to have the entire responsibility for the management of his team when engaged in contest. This idea is not a new one. The arguments that this ruling would make the game not merely a contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal...
Four Harvard players who started last year's one-sided contest will be in action with the first kick-off today. To be sure, Dartmouth has got the same number of veterans in the lineup, but most of the new Dartmouth faces were substitutes last season, and one, Dooley, was the star of the Harvard-Dartmouth clash two years...
Harvard's new players, on the other hand, have not all proved their worth. Meadows and Saltonstall, the ends, have done exceedingly well in the early contests, but neither has played in a contest of major importance. Putnam and French are brilliant Sophomores whose big test comes today. Whoever replaces Daley at guard, whether it be Simonds, Goodwin, or Stewart--the chances favor Simonds--will be in his first big game. Gamache, like Dooley, played two years ago, but unlike the Indian star, did not emerge from their contest covered with glory. Captain Coady was not in the starting lineup...