Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...yard dash should without doubt go to Foster. Dawbarn of Princeton is apparently his only dangerous competitor. The remaining places are hard to assign as no other exceptionally fast men have been developed this season, and Sherman, last year's third place winner, will...
Yale is counting on making a good showing in the 880-yard run with Spitzer, Mann, and Kirjassoff. Beck of Pennsylvania has made the fastest time of the season for this distance, however, and may come in ahead of the Yale runners. An even more formidable competitor is French of Cornell, who was second last year. Princeton has a good team entered for this event in Whitely, Laird, and Frantz. Warren and Guild of Harvard are strong runners and if they qualify this afternoon may be able to take a place tomorrow...
Harvard has a possible chance for first place in the shot-put with Little, although Krueger of Swarthmore, the present record holder, is the logical man for the position. Horner of Michigan is a very dangerous competitor and is expected by his team to win the event. Coy and Kilpatrick of Yale and Talbott of Cornell are closely matched for fourth...
...competition for the Wigglesworth Cup will begin t the traps on soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock and will continue for two weeks. The competitor making the best eight strings out of ten strings of 25 birds each will hold the cup until the shoot next fall. The cup is a permanent one presented by E. Wigglesworth '08 and was won for the first time last fall by C. L. Hauthaway...
...much to have it pointed out. Almost without exception the minor sports require only an hour a day of practice. Let me assure those who framed this rule, that this one hour subtracted from the study hours of the athlete in question can make no apparent difference in the competitor's College standing, and by this rule we cannot compete on even terms with our opponents in the minor sports...