Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle, a Thanksgiving Day crowd of 40,000 saw University of Washington, clinching its claim to the Pacific Coast Conference championship, roll up its biggest score in 34 games (40-10-0) against Washington State. First two touchdowns and the last were made by Sophomore Fullback Albert Cruver. One each went to Byron Haines and Jim Cain, spark-plugs of the Washington backfield since the season's start. Another touchdown rewarded one of the year's trickiest plays-a lateral from Nowogroski to Cain, who forwarded to Dick Johnson. Next day, after a secret poll to pick...
...year ago Southern Methodist v. Texas Christian was as good a game as any for claim to the U. S. championship. Last week at Dallas, it was still a major game, but only for the Southwest Conference title, to which Texas Christian's claim was weakened...
There can be no doubt that the formation of the Ivy League as an official entity would at once create a wholesome enthusiasm among the members of the institutions involved, which is usually lacking now except during championship seasons. Every game with a League opponent would naturally have an important bearing on the League championship with the result that the stress would be removed from the importance of having an undefeated season and anti-climactic games would also tend to be eliminated. Teams which did not win most of their games could still take an interest in their standing...
League members would play approximately five games a season with each other, thus allowing Harvard to play two or three games outside the League, such as Army and Navy. As each game with a League opponent would have a definite bearing on the championship of the conference, there would be an elimination of the games which now either prove nothing as far as standing of the teams are concerned, or are definitely uninteresting...
Last year the team was runner-up in the National Championship. This year there is a possibility that the squad might repeat that performance or even improve upon it. Assistant Coach Barnaby thinks the chances are excellent with material like Captain Richard M. Dorson '37, Alvah W. Sulloway '38, John C. Develin '38, Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, Robert O. Easton '38, Peter F. Cunningham '39, and George B. Blake '39, who as captain of the 1939 team went through the entire season undefeated...