Word: contested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to muster an adequate offense yesterday, the freshman soccer team was downed 2 to 0 by the University of Connecticut yearlings in a contest played at Storrs...
...Kirkland-Dudley contest was an unspectacular battle of defenses. Kirkland's vaunted power attack picked up a lot of short gains but got off only one long run. After a see-saw first half the Deacons finally punched their way to the 20, where a Lamb-to-Bixby pass registered the score...
...seven years as a sportwriter on the New York Journal-American, Hearstling Jeane Hoffman has covered everything from a frog-jumping contest to the World Series and the Belmont Stakes. ("I'm so tall," she says, "I have to interview jockeys sitting down.") In between, hard-boiled Reporter Hoffman found time to toss off some sport features for the Gazette. In naming her executive editor, Publisher Harold H. Roswell gave her orders to try to recapture the Gazette's bygone glories as the "sportsmen's bible...
...added spur was a four weeks' "Dress Yourself" contest. Salesmen got clothing prizes (ties, shirts, etc.) depending on what they sold, with the top prize a suit. At meetings once a week, salesmen could wear only what they had won. At the first meeting, some were barely decent. Last week. Joske's totted up results of the contest. In a month, $232,000 worth of Frigidaires had been sold-and 20 suits given out. Since the campaign started, Joske's has sold $750,000 worth, more than most big stores sell in a year...
...freshman race paralleled the varsity contest, with Rhode Island winning, Harvard placing second, and Holy Cross ending up third. The R. I. freshmen scored 20 points to Harvard's 40 and Holy Cross...