Word: contest
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Saturday, December 27, the Crimson will meet the Toronto University sextet in the Madison Square Garden, New York, in the annual holiday, battle with the Canadian team. The usual New Year's Eve contest with McGill University in New York has been transferred to Buffalo this year, and the two teams will meet there on New Year's Day. On December 30, the Crimson will hook up with the sextet from Michigan University in the Buffalo-drink...
...contest previously carded with the Buffalo professional team has been called off, due to the addition of the Michigan game to the schedule. Harvard will play under the revised American amateur rules against Michigan, but the games with the two Canadian teams will be governed by the old amateur rules still in use in Canada...
...engage in less elaborate and time-consuming seasons." From friction-plagued Pennsylvania comes the news that the gridiron captain is to be given far more power, the coach less. "Put the game in the hands of the undergraduates," advocates the Herald-Tribune. And in the Dartmouth, after the Stanford contest, is the pertinent query: granted that the trans-continental trek was good advertising, was it fair to the players...
...events: the 35-yard dash, the 35-yard high-hurdles, a SSO-yard race, and a one-lap relay race. At the same time, in the Old Cage, the final event of the University Fall Handicap meet will be played off. It will be the 35 pound hammer-throwing contest, which was indefinitely postponed last autumn on account of lack of the necessary equipment...
Interest in tonight's contest will center on Palmer, left wing of the University Club team, who starred last year in Yale hockey, and on Chase at center, who captained the Harvard skaters in 1928, and who was the outstanding Crimson player during that year, leading his team to 1 to 0 and 2 to 0 wins over a Yale sextet on which Palmer was a leading threat. Bigelow, at left defence, is one of the famous Bigelow twins who starred for Harvard two years...