Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, held in New York on February 2, Harvard was not represented. It was very unfortunate, as, owing to the absence of Harvard delegates, little business was performed. The negligence of the lacrosse management in overlooking this meeting should certainly be explained. Harvard lost the championship last year but that fact should not cause us to lose interest in the game. The captain has begun practice with great energy and it is a great mistake that he has not been more heartily supported by the officers of the association...
...have spoken before, and we take this opportunity to speak again, of the false statements which have appeared in many papers regarding the records of championships in the foot-ball league. The errors have come largely from ungrounded claims made in the Yale papers, and it will be strange if at the meeting of Yale men to celebrate Yale's success in athletics, tomorrow night, such claims will not be still more recklessly put forth. We have shown repeatedly how false and misleading these claims are, especially in the form in which they are circulated, but we have not been...
Princeton is making great preparations for the coming athletic season, and hopes to make a good showing in all branches. Heretofore the only championship which has been held by Princeton has been that in lacrosse, but this year, owing to the addition of several men valuable in track athletics, the college will be represented by a strong team at the Mott Haven games...
Much attention is being paid to lacrosse and Princeton hopes to hold the championship which was won last year from Harvard...
...Yale Chess Club has arranged for a tournament open to all members of the university, to begin about the middle of March. A handsome chased and enameled gold medal will be awarded for the championship of the university...