Word: championship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University golf team took second place in the intercollegiate championship at Garden City, L. I., on September 7 to 12. The Harvard six-man squad was undefeated until the final round, when it lost to Princeton...
...spring regatta on May 8 the Junior class crew captained by E. B. Harrison 1915, qualified to race the Harvard championship Sophomore crew and defeated it on May 16 by three lengths on a one and seven-eights miles course...
...team started the season with the best material in years. Only four men who played in the championship series against Yale last year were lost. These men were Felton, pitcher; Young, catcher; Tomes, third base; and Alsop in the outfield. Coach Sexton's greatest task this season has been in developing a catcher but he has succeeded, even beyond his expectations, as both Osborn and Waterman have played thoroughly satisfactory ball this spring. Waterman did the bulk of the backstop work earlier in the season but in the recent games he has been alternating with Osborn...
...whole, the season has been entirely successful. A victory over Yale should insure the team of the intercollegiate championship. But whether the Yale series be won or lost the members of the 1914 team and Coach Sexton, to whom too much credit cannot be given, should feel great satisfaction on the completion of a season of first class baseball
Although the intercollegiate baseball championship is a mythical title, which cannot be definitely awarded to any one team, a victory over Pennsylvania today, and a victory in the series with Yale, will put the University team in the very front rank, and if a mythical title can be claimed, will give the University a strong claim on it. The game today gives the University a chance to avenge its defeat in Philadelphia; also it is the last contest before the first Yale game. For these reasons it is an important contest and merits the keenest interest and strongest support...