Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Christmas vacation the team will swing into Ivy League competition with a round robin tournament against Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. Harvard, leading with fourteen victories in the past twenty-one contests, will seek to capture the championship cup for the fourth consecutive year...
...looking overly bright, however, Coach Ulen, pulls himself up with sobering thoughts of Athletic Director Bop Kiphuth's powerhouse down in New Haven. By a combination of committee rulings on old unofficial records and some fast driving, Al Stack, Paul Girdes, and Heuber of Yale now possess the Olympic championship record in the medley relay...
...thinks he has a fighting chance until he is behind by a rook, two knights and his queen, it was an outrage. But Reshevsky, Ulvestad and the initiates knew that, between masters, Ulvestad's position was no longer tenable. Reshevsky, four-time winner of the biennial U.S. championship, had clinched it again...
Yale won the Big-Three soccer championship by edging the Crimson Varsity booters, 3 to 2, yesterday afternoon on the Business School Field. A driving rain coupled with a wind of gale-like proportions made accurate passing and hard running next to impossible as both sides skidded and slid through 88 minutes of fairly even play...
...Except for a couple of family quarrels in which the outside world has not the faintest interest, another bogus football season now has run its counterfeit course here in New England. . . The shabby gentility of Harvard and Yale will play their meaningless little game to decide the championship of the Thwarted Three." November...