Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the Yale foot-ball team were given their trophies yesterday. They are miniature gold footballs an inch long, and about half an inch in diameter. On one side is inlaid in blue enamel the name of the owner and the "Champion," 1883, and on the other side the letters "Y. U. F. B. C.," and "Points Won 489, lost 4." They were made by Ford, and are of tasty design...
...Pennsylvania Gun Club. A challenge has been received from Cornell, and a match may be arranged with that club. Both these colleges have flourishing gun clubs that number among their members many good shots; especially is this true of the Cornell Club, among whose members are Mr. Whitney, the champion trap-shot of New York State, and the White brothers, the crack shots of the Ithaca Gun Club. Our men will have to do good work this spring to be able to win victories over such opponents...
...practice this fall. Immediately at the opening of spring, let the colleges throughout the West play for the championship there, and likewise those of the East for the championship here. Then at the time of the great boat-race between Harvard and Yale next summer, let the two champion nines play for a silver-mounted bat which will be given by the Yale Courant to the Champion Nine of American Colleges...
...Harvard champion nine of '65 was constituted from the following men, of whom Flagg, Abercrombie and Hunnewell were looked upon with as much veneration as Allen and Sam Winslow to-day: Flagg, Wright, Parker, Abercromble, Barker, Hunnewall, Davis, Gray, Nelson, Sprague, Miller, (this Nelson, by the way, was the man who used to visit freshmen's rooms and twist the knobs off the doors in his hand. He was the strongest man in college at the time...
...remarked the other day that all the playing of Yale's champion nine last year could not equal Dr. McCosh's home run from the anniversary last fall...