Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teams. These games brought out many men who showed proficiency in playing, and on October 12, 1864, a 'varsity club was formed. This club played many games with representatives of the different colleges, and with other amateur nines. In 1868, it received a challenge from Yale to play a championship game, in which the condition was that the men on both teams should be chosen from the academically departments. This challenge was accepted, and on July 23d of the same year, Harvard played her first inter-collegiate game with Yale. The game was well played on both sides...
Encouraged by the success of the road-race with Technology last week, the Bicycle Club has decided to challenge the Yale club to a similar race next spring. If the plan is carried out it will add another to the list of championship contests between Yale and Harvard. Of course it will be impossible to arouse as general an interest in bicycling as exists in foot-ball, base-ball, or rowing, but a race like the one proposed will tend to lift bicycling from the comparatively insignificant place it now holds as a college sport. Yale has many good riders...
...this position. Durell, '89, who has been in the right field, will perhaps remain at his old post or take centre field, and McMillan, '91, catcher for his class nine, will take his place. Watts, '91, who was in left field in some of last year's championship games, will probably retain that position...
...meeting of the donors of the Boston school foot-ball challenge cup last Monday, the cup and the championship were formally awarded to the Cambridge High and Latin school for the ensuing year...
...central wreath is made of morning glories: twenty-four leaves, and a number of well-drawn flowers. On each of these leaves will be engraved from year to year the name of the school, together with the names of the men who compose the team which wins the championship for that year. The cup rests on four claws. each of which clasps a tiny football. These are beautifully made, but are so small that they will scarcely be noticed unless attention is called to them. Around the bottom of the cup is a plain ribbon, which also twines about...