Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing this on the home bench just before the Mass. Aggies-Vermont baseball game. The team has just gone through some snappy infield practice--the fellows look good. We don't know what the outcome of today's contest will be. After all, that doesn't matter so much. What makes us feel proud and happy to be a "V" student is the fact that we see a wonderful bunch of fellows out there on the field, willing and anxious to advance the Green and Gold banner of baseball prestige as far as they are able to do so. They...
Defeating the Georgetown nine by an 11 to 3 count yesterday afternoon, the University baseball team chalked up its third victory in succession and twelfth of the season. Harvard went on a five-run scoring rampage in the opening inning and had matters well in hand throughout the contest...
...Gorman is Yale's best shot putter, but is expecting a close fight for victory. Dopesters here pick Wolfe to win the high jump and Conner to take the hammer throw. A close contest is expected between Alcock of Harvard and Stewart of Yale for the remaining places in this latter event, however...
...telegraphed across the continent from one institution to the other in order to determine the winner. If this experiment proves successful there might seem to be no reason why the golf team should ever-leave Cambridge to engage an opponent, except that, all the competitive spirit of the contest would be lost...
...country and comparative scores give it a slight edge on the Harvard netmen. The Elis defeated Williams, 8 to 1, and the Purple should furnish no stronger opposition to the Crimson racquet wielders, so that today's match may help to forecast the outcome of Saturday's contest...