Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening contest of the season the Crimson lost a sloppy game to a weak Exeter eleven through a safety 2-0 and on the following Saturday were no match for the hard-charging Worcester Academy gridders. But even at this date the Yardlings were showing improvement in spite of the one-sided 21-6 shellacking. Andover with a supposedly powerful offense nosed out the Freshmen 7-6 on a rain-soaked field two weeks...
Although Peter Elser was ranked as the top tackle on the squad preceding the contest last week, the play of reserve Reed at this post during the Brown game marks him as a serious contender. Walter Tibbetts at the other tackle will in all probability continue to get the starting call. Both Tom Lacey and Don Lowry showed improvement at guard with Lacey outstanding in breaking through the Bruin forward wall. Because of his dazed condition as a result of being struck on the head in the pre-game warming up session, Captain William Tully was unable to see much...
...huge drum, a gift to the band from the Harvard alumni of Pennsylvania, often plays an integral part in the between-the-halves formations, as for example when it toted a teddy bear in the Brown game and repelled an arrow in the Dartmouth puddle-jumping contest...
...State Board of Education to award contracts worth millions of dollars for 29 books for Texas schoolchildren. Of all the agents, none paced the floor more nervously than those of Manhattan's Harcourt, Brace & Co. and Chicago's Row, Peterson Co. Everyone knew that the fiercest schoolbook contest of the year in Texas was between these two, for the adoption of a seventh-grade history...
Gardella, the only back sure of his post behind the line has been badly battered but showed in the Andover contest that he is always dangerous, playing all but the opening minutes of the game and scoring the lone Crimson touchdown. In the event that Gardella is disabled. Coach Stahley can rely on Charles Burnett for tallback...