Word: contests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd of 25,000 included several hundred red-capped Cornell freshmen. "Frosh caps," as the beanies are called on the Hill, must be worn by all first-year men every day except Sunday on and off campus. They are burned in a traditional ceremony before the Penn game, final contest on Big Red football schedules...
...contest last Saturday at Ithaca was one of the most distinct examples of a game won entirely in the line that this bureau has ever seen. The Harvard line was out-charged on all but a handful of plays...
Triumphant Discussion. At Neosho, Mo., he couldn't resist giving the home folks a triumphant discussion of his travels. "I started out at Des Moines, at a plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...
...first contest as Jayvee mentor, Coach Ben McCabe will enjoy something of a windfall. Some half a dozen men who did not travel with the varsity to Cornell but would have dressed for a home game bolster his squad. Foremost of these is halfback Pete Petrille...
...Varsity contest, a four and a quarter mile test, went to Max Schafiler of Tufts, who was clocked in 23:24.8 minutes. For the Crimson, Nat Carieton was the first to cross the finish line, placing sixth. Joe Leming took eighth, John Cogan twelfth, Dick White thirteenth, and Joe Rosen fifteenth. The final score...