Word: champion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale has agreed to row the champion eight-oared crew of the Atlanta Boat club. The race will take place at New Haven ten days before the Harvard-Yale race at New London...
...great eastern colleges acknowledging the superiority of our eight Yale's refusal to row is, however, one of the most unsportsmanlike acts ever known in the world of intercollegiate athletics Yale claims the championship of American colleges in boating. By all laws, written and unwritten, the champion of any branch of athletics is always bound to accept any challenges to that title, and a failure to do so entails loss of championship honors...
...annual dinner of the New York Princeton club was held at New York last evening. Princeton's athletic victories were represented by an eleven foot tiger placed at one end of the room and holding two foot balls in his mouth. The Princeton champion eleven were, with the Princeton Glee club, guests at the dinner, and the foot ball men received trophies which the Princeton club had prepared in acknowledgement of their work last fall. Among the speakers of the evening were President Patton, Channcey M. Depew, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, expresident of the Princeton club...