Word: championed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cornell oarsmen arrive this morning and will have preliminary work on the river in preparation for the race tomorrow. The champion Yale class crew arrives in the afternoon and will probably also take a trial spin over the course...
Announcement was also made that Harry L. Hillman, former Olympic champion and Dartmouth track coach for the past six years, has signed a new five-year contract to go into effect July 1, 1916. In addition to his duties as track coach he will occupy the position of instructor in the physical education department...
First and Runner-up prizes will be given: also a championship shield to the school which wins the greatest number of points, each match won counting as one point. The winner of the tournament will have the right, as Harvard Interscholastic Champion for 1916, to play at the West Side Tennis Club, at Forest Hills, L. I., in August for the National Interscholastic Championship of the United States...
...University tennis team defeated Dartmouth at Hanover, last Saturday afternoon, by the score of 8 to 1. H. Teaze, former champion of the Philippines, won the only match for Dartmouth, taking two straight sets from J. S. Pfaffman...
...University baseball team opened the 1916 season by taking a brilliant 1-0 victory from the World's Champion Red Sox. The game was not a gift from magnanimous professionals; the Crimson players simply played better ball. The offensive work of the two nines was about on a par, but in the work in the field the University was decidedly superior, playing without error and pulling off three sensational double plays, the last of which effectually nipped the Red Sox' ninth inning rally and ended the game...