Word: championship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...coach of the University team this year, subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee, emphasized the necessity of team play and hard training in producing a winning team. W. Randall, of the Intercollegiate Rules Committee, and W. G. Grebenstein, Dartmouth '07, who will referee all championship games this year, were unable to be present, but are expected early this week...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold its annual indoor games in the Mechanics Building, Boston, on February 1. It is planned to hold a large number of relay races between the leading Eastern colleges, and, as in former years, the classes will compete in a relay race for the class championship. For the last four years the University has entered a relay team to compete against Yale, and for the last two years the Freshmen have had a relay race with the Yale freshmen...
...Haskins of Pennsylvania won the individual championship beating J. P. Halstead of Cornell by fifty yards and breaking the record for the course. His time was 35 minutes, 9 1-5 seconds. G. H. Whitely of Princeton led until a quarter of a mile from the finish, when he weakened badly and finished in fourth place. The University team, who have been accustomed to running on roads and firm fields, were considerably handicapped by the soggy condition of the Princeton course. Dole won a splendid race and came in sixteenth, while Captain Crosby finished twenty-second...
Cornell has won the championship for the last five years, and is expected to do so again this year. The University team finished fifth last year, but although the present team is fairly strong, it has been beaten by Yale, which in turn lost to Princeton, so that its chances seem rather doubtful. However, the team has been improving steadily, and should do better than last year...
...Princeton this afternoon to compete in the ninth annual cross-country run, which will be held over the Princeton course Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Besides Harvard, teams have been entered from Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Syracuse, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cornell has won the championship for the last five years, and is expected to win again this year. Last year the University team finished fifth, and, although it is somewhat stronger this year, its chances Wednesday are rather doubtful...