Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cummings, who had been stricken with tonsillitis a few days before the Dartmouth contest, made his first practice appearance in ten days, and was used with the "B" team. He bolstered an end squad that is now minus the services only of George Hauptfuhrer, who was banged up against the Indians and is not expected to play on Saturday...
Yale game is an affair which involves no necessity for worry about the Crimson's psychological state. That the team will be "up" for its final contest, to a degree not paralleled since the Holy Cross game, is practically a foregone conclusion. Yesterday's drill was far more spirited than any other Monday session all fall...
President Truman has unfortunately chosen to take issue with John L. Lewis on the topic: "Who is stronger--the government or Mr. Lewis?" If both sides have the courage to go through with the contest, there is no question as to its outcome--John L. can beat anything, weight for age, at any distance...
Twenty minutes later the Bruins tied up the contest on as freakish a play as has occurred this season. When the ball went out of bounds in fairly deep Harvard territory, the Crimson right wing threw it in to his halfback. The half-back, evidently thinking that he should make the throw-in, picked up the ball and started to the sidelines. The referee blew his whistle, ruled that a legal throw-in had been made, and called a hands penalty on the Crimson. On the subsequent free kick, Guiseppo Antone nudged the ball in for the only Brown score...
...contest was an expensive one for the Crimson because in the third period Dick Forster, starting left fullback, suffered a broken ankle when he collided with a Bruin bringing the ball down the sidelines. He will be out for the rest of the season...