Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two weeks practice on the low, fast-bouncing surfaces of the Indoor Athletic Building, the slow, damp clay at Annapolis throw the Crimson just enough off balance to drop the decision by one match. The next day at West Point, rain forced the contest onto the fast indoor cement courts, aging throwing the Varsity off-balance to the tune of a 6-3 defeat...
...before adjourning for the week Congress settled one extracurricular issue when Representative Fred Bradley, from Michigan's smelt-fishing eleventh district, revived the prewar fish-gulping contest. The winner: Ohio's 250-lb. Representative Clarence Brown, who unseated Former Champion Jesse Wolcott of Michigan. His performance: a claimed total of 51 fried smelts (20-odd by newsmen's count...
...Baseball team, Coach Adolph W. Samborski '25 has plotted a schedule that includes five games in five days. On Tuesday the squad meets Maryland, on Wednesday and Thursday Navy, and on Friday faces Pennsylvania in the Crimson's first Intercollegiate League contest since 1943. The trip will end Saturday with a tilt at West Point...
Coach Bob Maddux's lacrosse squad will also play its opener next week when it tackles Dreel Institute of Philadelphia on Tuesday. A Thursday game with Maryland, and a Saturday contest at Annapolis will round out the team's first week in action...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, has been named an honorary judge of the contest. The other judges will be: Harvey H. Bundy, former special assistant to the Secretary of War; Charles P. Curtis, Jr. '13, co-editor of "The Practical Cogitator"; Thomas H. Eliot '28, former Congressman from Massachusetts; and Judge Calvert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals...