Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classes at Harvard felt the fever and both played intercollegiate matches with Yale, and were beaten 23 to 22, 38 to 18. In the sophomore match a "Sheff" man played on a Yale class team for the first time, by Harvard permission. The university game with Williams for the championship was twice postponed on account of rain, and at last abandoned. Yale again declined to play...
...winners, or from new men. When the track opens, Mr. Lathrop will give his personal instruction to the men, and success of the past two years is sufficient to guarantee that they will be well trained and in the best possible condition to wrestle with the other colleges for championship in track athletics...
...autumn of 1866 saw two games in which the Harvard nine were engaged, and both victories: over the "Beacons," 53 to 18, and the "Trimountains," 33 to 16. But although winning seven out of thirteen games, the nine lost the silver ball and the college championship...
...need of systematic practice," says the Advocate, "was felt at first. Harvard was the first college to take up base-ball and consequently easily distanced her sister colleges, and also wrested the championship from the Lowell Club in the first attempt. Defeat taught the vanquished the necessity of discipline. The Williams College nine was under the care of two professional trainers for several weeks before the match at Worcester, and the powerful batting of the Lowell nine was the result of faithful attendance at the gymnasium last winter. Success on the other hand blinded the Harvard nine to the necessity...
...albeit they were less ill-natured and more humorous than those of to-day. The Yale Courant in September, says: "Let the various colleges throughout the country organize their nines and practice this fall. Immediately at the opening of spring, let the colleges throughout the West play for the championship there, and likewise those of the East for the championship here. Then at the time of the great boat-race between Harvard and Yale next summer, let the two champion nines play for a silver-mounted bat which will be given by the Yale Courant to the Champion Nine...