Word: championed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teams will be made up of the leading men in the respective rank lists. At the end of the year it is proposed to award prizes to the three leading men in each list, and to engrave upon a shield in the club room the names of the champions in each branch, with the result that every season there will be a competition lasting a year to determine the champion...
...have won medals for winning in the finals of the University Novice Wrestling Tournament which were held yesterday. A bout in the seventh class the heavyweight, between L. B. Davis '20 and J. F. Brown '22 will decide the heavyweight champion if Brown, who is on the football team, can get Coach Fisher's permission to wrestle...
...Seikel was coach of the vacation. Gym team in 1904 and 1905, and in those years he turned out winning teams. In 1908 he was a representative of the United States at the Olympic games, in which he was a point winner. He was state gymnastic champion of New Jersey for several years. Mr. Seikel is a recognized authority on gymnastics, and for the last ten years has served as a judge in intercollegiate meets...
...first year, 1876, Yale emerged the champion. It is interesting to note that in these games Yale's fullback, O. D. Thompson, defeated both Harvard and Princeton by a goal from the field, executed while running at full speed, a feat unseen in the 40 years since. It was on this early team that Walter Camp, football's great personality, played halfback for Yale...
...Rice's condemnation of the policy of the Military Science Committee in asking Harvard to champion the cause of universal training seems somewhat unwarranted. To ask a College like this to remain silent on such an important issue is to deny it one of its chief functions. It is to the colleges above all other institutions that the country looks for opinions as to our military policy; for it is the colleges who will be called upon to share a good portion of the burden should universal training be adopted. Therefore, Mr. Rice's analogy that colleges are not heard...