Search Details

Word: contesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Both men played in the 1929 contest their Sophomore year, and Booth missed a field goal attempt that would have tied the Crimson, Harvard winning 10 to 7. Wood made it two in a row over Booth the following season, with the Crimson scoring a 13 to 0 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And Hardly a Man is Still Alive Who Saw Harvard-Yale Start in '75 | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Albie's poetic justice came in 1931, when both he and Barry captained their respective eleven's. Harvard marched into the Stadium with an unbeaten record, took the Elis' opening kickoff back to the Bulldog seven yard-line, but failed to score. The grueling contest which followed was decided late in the game when Booth place-kicked a field goal that gave Yale a 3 to 0 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And Hardly a Man is Still Alive Who Saw Harvard-Yale Start in '75 | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Crimson team is composed largely of players new to the intricate Harlow system, but a thorough digestion of all the lore the coach has dispensed, plus the natural emotional lift that visits any Harvard-Yale contest could very conceivably produce a Varsity victory...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Harvard Eleven Struggles to Topple Steep Odds in 63rd Yale Encounter | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...anti-climactic as the other had been a climax, the last gasp of a world that was already dying. Taht year an underdog Crimson eleven saw an upset victory over Yale slip from its fingers in the cold drizzling rain and gathering drakness of the Yale Bowl. That contest was four years and a whole world away from the game this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale, 1946 | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Harvard's best Junior Varsity football team in the memory of the oldest Cambridge inhabitant concluded an undefeated, untied season yesterday afternoon with a convincing 26 to 0 victory over the Yale Jayvees at Soldiers Field, sludging through the same miserable weather conditions that characterized every athletic contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Jayvee Gridders Squelch Yale Squad, 26-0 | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | Next