Word: contest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University polo team defeated the Danvers Riding Club in an unofficial game played yesterday afternoon at Danvers by the score of 11 to 4. Captain E. T. Gerry '31 was the star of the contest, accounting for six of his team's goals. H. I. Nicholas, Jr. '30 scored two, as did A. L. Castle, Jr. '32. Crispin Cooke '32, captain of last year's Freshman team made the last of the Harvard goals...
Billy Laval, coach of the South Carolina University football team is having his halfbacks literally live with footballs in the hope that the costly fumbles that marred the "Gamecocks" contest with Clemson last week may not occur again. His ball carriers are carrying the ball to class, to meals, and to bed this week, so that they may become thoroughly familiar with its ovoid shape...
...final game of the class football series will be played this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock on Soldiers Field, when the Sophomore and Junior elevens will meet in the deciding contest of the season. Yesterday a Senior team played the Sophomores in a game that resulted in a scoreless tie, but due to the fact that two Juniors were in the Senior lineup the game was forfeited...
...system of debating to be used in the contest with the New Jersey Law School is that of split teams, where two men from each school speak on each team, giving each school an equal representation on both affirmative and negative sides. The method of selecting teams in the University is also new this year. A squad has been selected from which a team will be chosen prior to each debate of the season. Men who do not place on an inter-school debate will have an opportunity to improve their speaking before the next debate, and win a post...
...County Fair, Kingston, N. C., a cat-washing contest was held last week. Superviser was D. Eugene Wood, famed Carolina sportsman, who claims to have seen a flight of white crows, who advocates stocking the State's eastern swamps with 10,000 goats to eliminate underbrush and provide new game. Excerpts from Sportsman Wood's cat-washing rules...