Word: championship
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...Senior and Sophomore football teams will play off the tie for the upperclass championship on Soldiers Field at 3.45 o'clock this afternoon...
...assisted the captains of the respective teams. The first game of the series was played November 13, when the Seniors defeated the Juniors 6 to 0. On the following Monday the Sophomores were defeated by the Freshmen 10 to 0, and on last Wednesday the Freshmen gained the class championship by defeating the Seniors 21 to 0. The game to decide the possession of upperclass numerals was played last Thursday between the Seniors and Sophomores and neither side was able to score...
...sufficient numbers to warrant a score by one of the teams and it was usually the team that had the most friends among the spectators that secured the victory. This was perhaps a relic of the ancient by-gone days when in no less of an affair than a championship intercollegiate contest the sympathizers of one of the contending teams swarmed on the field at the psychological moment and wrenched the goal posts form the ground to prevent their opponents from scoring a goal in the old-fashioned game...
Every member of the Sophomore class, who can do so, should be on the field this afternoon at 3.45 to cheer the team in its final game with the Seniors. This game decides the championship of the three upper classes, and it is most essential that the team have the support of its class...
...Young of Cornell won the individual championship, beating G. A. Dull of Michigan by a bare eight yards. His time was 34 minutes, 14 seconds, breaking the record made by G. Haskins of Pennsylvania last year, by 55 1-5 seconds. H. Jaques, Jr., '11 finished third in 34 minutes, 20 seconds, also beating last year's record. The pace set by Dull of Michigan was very fast and soon after the start the line of runners extended a quarter of a mile along the course. The leaders, however, kept well together until a steep hill was reached, two miles...