Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard played her last championship game at Philadelphia on Thanksgiving Day and won easily. Although the weather was threatening, it rained very little, and the grounds were in a fair condition. Pennsylvania won the toss and chose the advantage of a light wind. The ball was dribbled to Sears, who gained a few yards. By sharp running the ball was forced slowly down the field, Wood and Holden made pretty rushes, and at last the ball was down at Pennsylvania's five-yard line. In lining out Holden took the ball straight through the Pennsylvania line, and scored the first...
About five thousand people saw the final struggle for the foot-ball championship. It had rained hard all right, and all day up to the time of game had drizzled so that the field was slippery and in places covered with water...
...Cambridge and Waltham Lacrosse teams played for the championship in the Lower Port yesterday morning, in which Waltham...
...that she will not play Princeton tomorrow at Princeton. By this act she has shown her true colors. Silent at first, apparently acquiescing in the decision of the convention, she now at the eleventh hour declares her intention of playing the game on paper and so to claim the championship. For the past three years she has by her peristent nonsense, destroyed the harmony of the foot-ball league. Patience is exhasted and the time has come when her selfish spirit should be so effectually chained that the college world may no longer be disgraced by such disgruntled hoggishness...
...unnecessary. Two years ago the game played in New York resulted in a draw which caused a violent discussion between the college papers of Yale and Princeton. This left the question in such a tangled shape that it is presumptuous for any one to express an opinion of the championship of that year. Twelve months ago, the Princeton Faculty forbade the Princeton eleven to play in New York. The Constitution of the Foot-ball Association says that the game between the two leading clubs shall be played in New York. Under these circumstances Princeton was compelled to accede...