Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tennis match has been arranged between Thomas Pettitt, the champion of America, and Harry Boakes, the champion of Canada...
...letters. The Columbia crew will go to New London today. If they will give as good an account of themselves at the oar as the members of the senior class have given at their books the glories of 1876 may be again revived, and Columbia be again the college champion. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...proposed to form a foot-ball league among the New England colleges outside of Yale and Harvard; each college to play one game with every other, and the one winning the greatest number of matches to be champion for the year, Yale and Harvard are to be excluded, because the advantage they possess in being able to pick their teams from a number of candidates greatly in excess of any of the other colleges, added to several years of experience, at present practically precludes the possibility of others competing with them, with any chance of success...
Upward of 3000 persons watched the seventh annual games of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America, at the Polo Grounds, New York, Saturday. The greatest work of the day for excitement was the 220-yards run. Myers, the champion, was beaten by Brooks of Yale. Myers was put back a yard for a false start, which he could not recover. The half-mile was won by Goodwin, '84, over eight contestants...
...amateur championship games occur at New York today at 3 P. M., on the Polo grounds. Myers, the amateur champion, Wilmer, an ex-champion at short distances, and Brooks, of Yale, will meet in the short runs, and it is thought by the friends of Brooks that he will beat Myers or force him to lower all previous records in the 100 and 220 yards runs. Goodwin, '84, will compete with Myers, Jesurun and Smith in the one-half mile run. Fredericks, the mile champion for the last two years, will find men worthy of his steel, while...