Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent Advocate takes up the much-discussed question of the football championship, and decides that Princeton still has a right to the title which she has held for the past three years. To us it seems that this decision is wrong. The facts are as follows: Princeton was champion last year, and has won two games and tied one this year. (This assumes that she will get a game from Columbia either by play or forfeit.) Yale has precisely the same score. Now, if the championship is something that is played for each year, and if the title...
...disposition to quarrel, and we hope that this spirit may direct our future contests with Yale. With a record of six games played and only two defeats, we think the Football Team need not be discouraged, but may look forward to a time when Harvard shall again be champion of the country, as she is now of Canada...
...tape, F. A. Thompsen (formerly of Harvard, '82) finishing a good second. Thompsen also took second prize in the hammer, with a record of 81 ft. 11 1/2 in.; and in the hop, step, and jump, with 40 ft. 9 in. to his credit. E. E. Merrill, the champion amateur walker of America, at one and three miles, started at scratch in the 2-mile (handicap) walk, but being over-handicapped, as well as out of condition, was only able to finish third. The race was won by Hosmer of the Boston Athletic Club (90 seconds start...
...such a crew, it should not be sent abroad to show Oxford and Cambridge what we are doing in America. We have only one word of caution for Yale, and that is, that they are not entitled to the right to send their crew to England as "the Champion College Crew of America." Aside from the fact that we ourselves may be able to dispute that assertion next July, we would remind our friends in New Haven that there are other colleges in America, such as Cornell and Columbia, who in former times have proved themselves no despicable rivals...
...Intercollegiate Champion of last year...