Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which confidently expect to win the Mott Haven Cup for themselves. Our own team is weakened, or we must suppose it so until the new candidates prove themselves worthy successors of the old prize winners. The Mott Haven team has never yet followed the example of Harvard's other championship teams and gone to pieces at critical moments. We can never be too careful, however of this unfortunate tendency; and we urge as a preventative in this instance, all candidates to get themselves in the best possible condition by regular work in the gymnasium...
...varsity nine began practice yesterday. Although the outlook is not at all what it was at this time last year, we can at least hope for the best in spite of our bad prospects; last year we never expected anything else but success, and yet somehow we lost the championship at the last moment. This year when we have little reason to expect anything better than second place, fate should, by the same perverseness, give us the coveted pennant. At any rate the college will have in either case the satisfaction of knowing that nothing will be left undone...
...apply for admission. The new organization will be called the Eastern Foot-ball Association, and two meetings a year will be held, on the first Wednesday in October and December. A constitution presented by W. F. Morgan, jr., of Trinity, was adopted with some modifications, which states that the championship must be decided by a percentage of games won and lost, and that a referee must be agreed upon by the two contesting teams, and no protests will be allowed from his decisions. Camp's foot-ball rules were adopted, with modifications to be made at the first meeting. These...
...have played in two University championship games of foot-ball will please meet in uniform at Pach's Saturday...
...base ball association cannot be very pleasant reading for Harvard men; for though Harvard stands by far the leader in the batting and almost, if not quite, a leader in the fielding averages; though she possesses the best individual players in the league, she did not win the championship which ought to have been hers. We shall always maintain that Harvard had the best nine in the league of 1886, and that nothing but a series of accidents lost her the championship; in support of this view the figures now published need only be referred to, and the general playing...