Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston University this year six or eight of the best scholars in the senior class will be appointed by the Faculty to compete in an oratorical contest from which the commencement speakers will be chosen...
...ends as well as end running. The wedge play is not all brute force. The large college teams showed them as models of skill and clever head work. The wedge should stay in football, but a provision of some kind should insure a necessity of other play during a contest. It ought to be a possible play, but not all the play, and legislation which will induce the captain for the interest of his team to use other plays as well, is the legislation that will be productive of the best results...
...Whiteman" sophomore contest at Amherst, the prizes given for excellence in the composition of orations, are copies of "American Orations," edited by Prof. Alex. Johnson, of Princeton...
...subject was carefully considered by Yale men and having been advised upon the matter, they have decided not to accept the invitation. The general opinion is that the contest would savor too much of professionalism...
...student shall be eligible as a member of any university team in any one of the four sports before mentioned after the expiration of the three academic years immediately following that in which he played for the first time in an intercollegiate contest with the university team representing the same sport...