Word: contender
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the College Office at that time. In addition, Boyle and Waterman, who held the Yale freshmen to a 1 to 1 the for 13 innings this spring, will be valuable assets to the University squad. Ernst, Bird, and Hardy are the present members of the squad who will contend for pitching honors. The infield will remain practically intact, with Potter at second base, Desha playing short stop and Gibson at third. The latter will have two strong rivals for his position in Coon, who has played there many games this season, and Wingate, captain of the 1914 team. Reynolds...
...aggregation is a well-balanced one and will take many seconds and thirds. It will probably happen that one of the two will detract a sufficient number of points from the other so as to allow Yale to slip into second place. The University team will have Michigan to contend with for fourth place, with the odds in favor of the latter for the position. The actual strength of the Western team is unknown and it is possible that it may be even a serious contender for first place. Princeton, in spite of the fact that the dual meet...
...place in the half-mile depends on whether Paull of Pennsylvania runs this race or the mile. If Paull runs only this event he should win it, or otherwise first place will go to Putnam of Cornell. B. M. Preble '12, and H. Jacques, Jr., '11, will have to contend with McKinney of Princeton and Hall and Reck of Michigan for the other points...
...team has been playing remarkably good ball this year and is composed of a number of star players. Captain Wingate shows promise of developing into one of the best third basemen that a Freshman team has had in a long time. Reynolds and Clark at catch and short, respectively, contend for honors in batting, both being dependable upon to secure a hit when it is needed...
Brooks House has to contend with conditions which are met with in few, if any, other colleges. The Union supplies the undergraduates with a common meeting place, and its reading rooms supplant the usual function of the religious society's library. No glamor is attached to the work carried on in Brooks House, as is the case elsewhere, so that many fail to notice its existence. Although its activities are many and varied, they are in the main connected with social service work outside of the University, upon which branch of its administration it is to be congratulated. The excellent...