Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine met with its second defeat in the championship games at New Haven on Saturday. The result was a disappointment to the college, but there were many points in the playing of the nine which calls forth commendation, and the team should not be too severely criticized for its work. Yale obtained a tremendous lead in the first inning but the Harvard team played pluckily an up hill game and kept up heart till the last. Harvards's errors were very costly. Twice wild throws let in three unearned runs. These unexcusable errors, however, were confined...
...annual games of the New England Intercollegiate Athletic association took place on Thursday at Worcester. Dartmouth won the championship, getting eight first and three second prizes, with Amherst second. Williams and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute ran a close race for third place...
This afternoon the university nine will play its first championship game with Yale at New Haven. It is with considerable anxiety that the college will await the result; the game is, in a way, the turning point in the championship race. It Harvard loses, her chances for final success will be very materially lessened, although not destroyed. If, on the other hand, a victory is obtained, Harvard will be in the lead for the pennant. We feel that the hopes for fulfilling the latter condition are by no means inconsiderable. In the first part of the spring there seemed little...
...Harvard, and after this will come to us as a reminder of Harvard's preeminence in track athletics, yet we hope that our tormer record may be kept up and that the work of our men today may cause the name of Harvard to be engraved on the last championship space...
...cricket team leaves today for its first championship match, not, to be sure, with the brightest prospect of success. Harvard can scarcely hope to defeat an eleven containing five or six of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia team which is to visit England next summer; but the college will expect a good showing even against these odds. The eleven has been improving lately, and with sharp fielding and steady work ought at least to keep down the runs. Cricket has taken a good start this year, and more interest has been shown in it than in former years. The eleven ought...