Word: champion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university expects to be represented by a champion eleven this season, a stronger second eleven must be placed on the field. "You cannot make bricks without straw" holds good in football...
...first two players in the final round will play successively the champion of the club (in the present year, Harold Lewis '96), for the championship. But if the present champion beat the first player in the tournament, he need not play with the second player in the tournament, and may enter the intercollegiate tournament at New York...
...London Athletic Club, who was to have been one of the members of the team of that organization now in the United States, but who declined to go, has cabled to America offering to defray the expenses of Kilpatrick and Conneff of the New York Athletic Club, respectively the champion runners at 440 and 880 yards, and one, three and five miles, if they will come to England and compete in the Stamford Bridge games in November, with himself and Bacon respectively, the contest between himself and Kilpatrick to be at a distance of half a mile...
...bear about the same speed relation as do Cady and Hatch, who will be offered as their opponents by Yale. Cady, however, has been doing splendid work over the high sticks in practice, and in a recent trial finished only a yard and a half behind Chase, the American champion, in the record time of 153/5 seconds. Much depends upon the outcome of the two hurdle races as to how the balance of victory will swing. On record form as well as on present performances, the chances are somewhat in favor of Yale...
...interesting fact that nine of the members of last year's eleven graduated from Yale last June, and the task of putting a champion team in the field this fall is the hardest that any captain has experienced in years...