Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team has been scrimmaging hard the past two days in preparation for the contest. Coach Sargent's malletmen met the Army team early in the season, succumbing by the score of 12 to 9. But since then the team has improved greatly and rates much closer to the 14 goal combination of their opponents than in their previous engagement...
...advantages that all concerned would derive from such an arrangement must seem obvious. The Crimson's opponents would be able to take their meals and sleep near the location of their particular contest, not only making the trip to Cambridge easier and more pleasant, but also allowing them more time to engage in pre-game practice sessions. The new building could be of even more direct benefit to Harvard if offices for the H.A.A. and for the various intercollegiate sports' managers were included therein, thus doing away with the dingy, cramped quarters these organizations now possess in the basement...
...mere fact that the over-popularizing of a subject results in a wide detour from scientific truth is not the most harmful effect of teaching which aims primarily to please the student, declared Zimmerman. The degeneration of instruction into a popularity contest strikes a fatal blow at scientific treatment of a subject, based on historical perspective...
Coach Sargent's men go into action as heavy pre-game favorites against the Princeton malletmen in Tigertown at three o'clock this afternoon. This is the last regularly scheduled contest of the season...
Those Canadians, individually and collectively, made sure of their titles last week, the final of the league season. McGill repulsed Dartmouth, the last remaining American threat, for its ninth victory in ten games. McConnell added two points on assists to his total in that contest to finish with 43 points and complete his work of spread-eagling the rest of the league's offensive artists...