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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most gratifying win for Norm Shepard's flock, being their first in Eastern League play this year. But the most distinctive feature of the contest was the bewildering assortment of fielding errors and mental boners which kept the spectators chortling for a full three-and-one half hours...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Baseball Team Wins Two Contests As Princeton, Columbia Nines Bow | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...heavyweight J.V. race, Dartmouth took second place two-and-one-half-lengths behind the Crimson by pulling away from Princeton in the last quarter of a mile. Time for the J.V. contest was a much slower 9:30.6, since stiff head winds in the middle of the race forced the Crimson stroke down...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Crimson Crews Sweep Six Races As Heavyweights Set New Record | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...triangular meet which was supposed to be its closest contest so far this season, the varsity track team trounced a strong Penn squad, 86 1/2 to 58 1/2, Saturday in the Stadium. Cornell finished far back with 28 points...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Squad Beats Penn, Cornell By Large Margins in Triangulars | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Club president, Bill Morse, who played in the fall contest, feels that the team does, however, have a good chance for victory, since it has received much added strength in the five starters who played football this fall. The Tigers, though, cannot reap the benefit of such ex-gridders, for it is the policy of the Princeton football coach to forbid all of his proteges, except seniors, from participating on the rugby team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby to Challenge Tigers | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

Tomorrow's contest will actually be two matches in one, with the top six singles and three doubles for EIL purposes and ten and five for Big Three standings. Conroy concedes that the varsity probably has an edge in the bottom four singles spots, where Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt, Pete Smith and Scott Custer meet Tigers John Cartier, Tim Scarff, Kit Huttig and Toby Worth...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Team Battles Princeton In Crucial EIL Test Tomorrow | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

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