Word: contested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, quiet Bill Russell practiced his weak shooting eye, said nothing, and waited for the big day when the Warriors came to town. Last weekend in the Boston Garden, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain met for their first official contest in the N.B.A...
...will be an all-or-nothing situation this morning when the varsity soccer squad meets Brown at 11 in Providence. The Ivy League race has become a two-defeats-and-out contest, and the Crimson (3-1-0) and Brown (3-1-1) will be fighting for survival...
...five of the seven games played between 1922 and 1932, Brown scored victories, but another spell of Crimson dominance was at hand. Beginning with the 1933 contest, the varsity held Brown to 13 points in five years, winning by margins...
...Dunster-Eliot game, apparently the key contest of the tackle season, took place on Oct. 13. Dunster came from behind to win in the last minute of play...
Other epic contests have followed. One of the most famous was the 1929 Army contest, in which the Crimson tied a West Point eleven led by all-time great Chris Cagle, 20 to 20. Putnam and Barry Wood, then a substitute, completed seven of 12 passes for 168 yards, including a list-ditch aerial to end V.M. Harding for the tying touchdown...