Word: champion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Lacrosse Association has decided to engage a Canadian coach for the team, who will give special attention to stick work. This coach will be assisted by Dr. Reimer, H. M. Williams '85 and F. C. Hood '86, the latter two of whom were captains of intercollegiate champion teams...
Stephen Chase, the world's champion high hurdler, will contribute to the May number "The History and Science of Hurdling." There will also follow by well known athletes careful studies and histories of all the sprints, distance runs, jumps and weight throwing events contained in the intercollegiate programme. Besides Chase, Hickok, Orton, Cross, Norton Shaw, Rinehart, and others, have prepared articles which will be published during the year. A. K. Moe '97 will be in charge of a special department devoted to cartoons on athletic subjects. J. E. N. Shaw '98 is among the directors...
...England hold within themselves. His powers of language and of the use of the most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted a touch of tenderness to me to feel that...
Next Friday evening the alumni of Princeton will give a banquet at the Princeton Inn to this fall's champion football eleven. Mr. John W. Alexander '60 will preside and Governor Griggs of New Jersey will be the guest of honor. Harvard will be represented by ex-Captain J. H. Sears '89, and Yale by Mr. George Adee...
...Ecktorm '98, of Chicago, who played halfback on this year's champion eleven, has been elected captain of the Dartmouth football team for next year...