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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Harry Hillman of Dartmouth brings his squad of runners and field men to give battle to the Crimson entries. Harvard, with an easy triumph over Holy Cross and Brown, and the Hanoverians, with the Syracusan scalps in their belts, have an even chance to win according to the rival coaches. Whatever the final outcome may be, there is little doubt that the keenest competition will be the order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANOVER COHORTS INVADE STADIUM | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

...University Second team journeys to Exeter for a match with the local Academy this afternoon. As the Harvard team has defeated Andover, 7 to 2, it should have little trouble with the rival academy. The Seconds line-up is Ruhl, No. 1; Greene, No. 2; Cross, No. 3; Parker, No. 4; Gilman, No. 5; Bronstein, No. 6; with A. H. Rice '31 as alternate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETSTERS FACE BRUINS AT PROVIDENCE TODAY | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

Strong Al Manger and strong Willie Rohrer had one rival for attention, little (118-lb.) Robert Knodle of Hagerstown, Md., who broke five records in his class. But, as usual, the heavyweight class seemed more interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong-Men | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Amassing a large number of points by an unpredicted show of strength in the field events which gave it an 18 point lead over its nearest rival, the Phillips Andover Academy scored its eighth straight victory in the Class A group of the Interscholastic track meet held on Soldiers Field last Saturday. Although the Bay State athletes failed to take a single first on the track, they scored in every event of the meet except the century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS ANDOVER WINS 44TH INTERSCHOLASTICS | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...goes. In its place exist the intricate individual agreements that hold only within small groups of colleges; this is in line with the increasing apartness of institutions, now in the phase of leagues, and perhaps eventually to be narrowed down everywhere to the meeting of only two or three rival colleges a year. Under such conditions the administration of amateur rules is simplified for those to whom their enforcement makes any difference: the limited number in a league makes possible the application of its rules to its members. But in leagues of unwieldy size this salutary effect hardly exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BUSINESS END | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

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