Word: contests
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Master Brower threw an appropriately big champagne victory party at Apthorp House after the contest. He and his team celebrated the win and drank toasts to their hope of a greater victory over the Yale soccer champions, if Adams can hold on to its lead. Only Dudley now lies in Adams' path to the House soccer championship...
...resemblance between today's contest and the football game immediately following it will be anything but accidental. Brown has gained. the reputation through the years of being the roughest team in the Ivy League and from all advance notices will be in there slugging today. In last year's game, varsity fullback Chris Provenson was elbowed in the face and the resulting injuries forced him out of soccer for good...
...players that might have developed faster but for bothersome leg injuries are Repsher and Bert Messenbaugh. The latter was hurt in the Cornell game and was unable to play hard for the following four Saturdays. Repsher appeared to have won the starting halfback position in the Cornell and Lehigh contest but was sidelined with an ankle injury, giving Tom Lawson his chance to capture the right halfback spot. "It was more serious than it appeared at first, because Larry relies so much on his speed," Yovicsin said...
...tailback Jack Sullivan would give the Bulldogs more of a fighting chance this Saturday were dashed last night. Yale coach Jordan Olivar announced that Mike Pyle, star center, and Dick Coleman, considered by many to be Yale's best quarterback, will not be able to play in the Princeton contest...
Until Nigeria's federal election takes place next year, the three Premiers will continue jockeying for power, and the fate of Nigeria could well hinge on who comes out on top. Last week, even as the National Planning Committee of Independence opened its contest for the design of a national flag (first prize: $300), many Nigerians had grave reservations about what lay ahead. For all its jubilation, Nigeria's West African Pilot felt obliged to warn: "Independence without difficulties is a dream of Utopia...