Word: champion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rowing problem among American universities is ever to be settled, if any arrangement is ever to be effected whereby the champion crew may be determined each year, it is absolutely necessary that Pennsylvania and Cornell continue to meet in their four mile races. It is only by such means, and through the continued improvement of these contests that the winner can here to meet the winner of the Yale - Harvard contest and the championship can be decided. If Pennsylvania is responsible for any interruption to the annual four mile race with Cornell, then she can undoubtedly be held responsible...
...Gordon Parker, the interscholastic tennis champion, is now travelling abroad. He intends to enter Harvard next fall...
...Lynn in 1837, but he first established his position as one of the foremost orators of his time in a speech delivered the same year in Faneuil Hall, at a meeting called to express indignation at the killing of Loverjoy. From that time on he was the champion of the anti-slavery movement, using his unequalled powers of oratory in its cause. The fight was over when Lincoln called for volunteers, and the abolitionists came into popular favor...
Robert D. Wrenn '95, of Chicago, quarterback, entered from the Cambridge Latin School, where he played football. He is best known as the tennis champion, though he played on his class team in both freshman and sophomore years, being captain in the latter. Age 21, height 5 ft. 9 in., weight...
Robert D. Wrenn '95, of Chicago, quarterback, entered from the Cambridge Latin School, where he played football. He is best known as the tennis champion, though he played on his class team in both freshman and sophomore years, being captain in the latter. Age 21, height 5 ft. 9 in., weight...