Word: champion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be held over a course of 1 7-8 miles, between the Cottage Farm Bridge and a point just opposite Fairfield street, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. All of the men on the winning boat will be entitled to wear class numerals, and will race against the champion. Yale class crew on Saturday, May 16. Whether this race will be held on the Charles or at New Haven has not yet been settled...
...defeating Princeton by the score of 2 to 0 on Saturday afternoon the University soccer team won the intercollegiate soccer championship for the second year in succession. Up to Saturday's contest Pennsylvania seemed the probable champion as the University required a clear two-goal victory to gain the title. Princeton, outweighed to a man, played pluckily all the game, and not only kept Harvard from scoring more than the required majority but several times, particularly in the second period, came near scoring, on the University...
...most exciting race was the 440-yard dash, in which W. Willcox, Jr., of the 1917 team equalled the world's interscholastic record of 48 4-5 seconds made by J. E. Meredith, now of Pennsylvania, when he was at Mercersburg Academy. Willcox let M. B. Orr, the interscholastic champion, lead the race for the first 220 yards, and then suddenly passed the latter by a beautiful burst of speed. From then on Orr repeatedly tried to overtake Willcox, but the latter proved the better, finishing about two yards ahead of the Exeter...
Prizes will be given to the winner and to the runner-up; and to the school winning the greatest number of points will be awarded the championship shield. Each match actually won will count one point. The winner, as Harvard interscholastic champion for 1914, will be allowed to play at Newport, in August, for the national interscholastic championship. All men who participate are invited by the Committee on Reception to Visiting Teams to spend Saturday in Cambridge without expense...
...interest in the Relays is this year much more general than ever before. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Chicago, Illinois, and many other big colleges have entered very fast relay teams. The University of Southern California has entered two exceptional runners, Kelly, the Olympic hurdle champion, and Drew, the phenomenal colored sprinter, considered to be the fastest man for 100 yards in America...