Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel no respect for your opponent, is to give rise to feelings of laxity and carelessness which are positively injurious to a good team. In such contests the weak points of the team have no chance of being found out, and are thus left uncorrected till the most important championship games. During the past two or three weeks Yale and Columbia have had a chance to perfect themselves by playing with such teams as the professional Newarks, New Yorks, Brooklyns, and Washingtons. These games have undoubtedly been productive of much good in pointing out weak points and in perfecting...
...playing in the games, Harvard will have a very weak team in the field this year, unless a decided improvement is made. The fielding of the infield has been very poor, most of the errors in the games being inexcusable. From the present outlook the team will lose the championship through poor fielding. - Boston Herald...
...meeting of the National Lawn Tennis Association last week, it was voted that the tournament for championship singles should take place at Newport, August 22, and the following days until decided, and the tournament for championship doubles at Orange on Tuesday, Sept. 6, and succeeding days. In the singles all matches are best 3 out of 5, vantage sets. Heretofore they have been simple sets. Competitors defeated by the winner will play for second prize, best 2 out of 3, vantage sets. A special prize will be offered for those defeated in the first round of singles, best...
...every way, for the objections that were made to the "weaker" college nines remaining in the league surely appertain to Columbia. As for the old league, it is in every way better apportioned than the new one, and the members - Amherst, Williams, Brown and Dartmouth - will enter for the championship well matched, each feeling that it has an excellent chance for championship honors...
...RETAINS THE TUG-OF-WAR CHAMPIONSHIP - '87, THE PENNANT - LEAVITT BREAKS THE HARVARD RECORD IN THE POLE-VAULT...