Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Harkness, last year's intercollegiate 175-pound wrestling champion, now at law school; Austin Scott, former president of the club, Phil Strong, treasurer of the Club; George Ditz, former captain of the Stanford University Rugby Club; Fred Smith, former Princeton rugger; Johnny Castle of Yale; and Paul Counihan are the other ranking forwards...
...House letter, according to the report, will be given to "all members of the champion House team in each sport, both team and individual sports, and to all members of a House all-star team in the individual sports, such team picked by the coaches, which all-star team will meet Yale in such sports, just as the champion team meets Yale in the team sports...
...firm belief of the proponents of the plan that its advantages are such that Yale will soon come to adopt the game sort of sports set-up for the future. Until then, in the individual sports, the Harvard all-House teams will be at an advantage over the champion Yale House team and on close to an equal plane with these individual sports in which Yale has no House team, while in the team sports Harvard will be at a disadvantage in meeting the Eli soccer, lacrosse and rugby regular outfits and on the same plane in the others...
...present sculling coach is an example of the coach of the new type, a year-round position, for which the plan calls. His name is as widely known in his sporting world as that of any competitive coach. And the champion games with Yale, with intensive coaching before them still continues the intercollegiate thrill for those deserving it. And finally, let it be remembered that athletics are moulded for the undergraduates, not for the coaches...
This is all very similar to the English system, where intra-mural athletics exist to the exclusion of everything but the final game with the rival blue. And even this is incorporated into Harvard's brawny heaven. For the season's culmination is to be a meeting with the champion gentlemen from New Haven. There is to be a little Yale-Harvard axis around which the minor sports world revolves, with all other colleges somewhere off in another universe...