Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Federhen, 6-4, 6-3, and in the finals was beaten by Philip Sears after a brilliant contest, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. In the last round of the doubles, the Sears brothers beat Kuhn and Keep, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Philip Sears is the college champion in singles, and he and his brother hold the championship in doubles. The tournament was a great contrast to last year's, the playing being spirited throughout and the whole affair being conducted on a very prompt and punctual basis. The association is to be congratulated on its success. Without...
...have a prior claim to the field at this season of the year; but in the spring, when Jarvis is at their disposal, they will attempt to bring out all the lacrosse talent at Harvard from which to form a team which shall be a worthy successor to the champion twelve...
...Yale News grows more amusing with every issue. In its item column of Thursday it gravely stated that "Clarkson, the pitcher for the champion Chicagoes, is a Harvard graduate," and that "The Princeton sophomores posted their usual proclamation, Saturday, forbidding the freshmen from carrying canes until after the freshman base-ball game with Harvard...
Williams and Goodale, members of last year's champion lacrosse team, were out practising yesterday...
...Myers, the American champion runner, won the quarter and half-mile scratch and the half-mile handicap races over competitors from the London Athletic Club and the Mosely Harriers last Saturday at the meeting of the Widnes Athletic Club, near Manchester, England...