Word: championships
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mile race, with turn, for Senior Single Scullers; prize, the championship of the University...
...Harvard-Yale race of June 27, I am sure that Yale men generally would be pleased to have the Harvard crew continue in training a few days longer, enter the N. A. A. O. regatta against Cornell and Columbia, and bear off the laurels of the much-talked-about "championship." If it were also announced that half of the same Harvard eight would subsequently compete for the four-oared cup, the number of entries therefor would be increased. Princeton, for instance, would be almost certain to train a four, if assured that the same would have a chance of trying...
...with the hope of getting on only at some distant date. This was the case when Tyng and Ernst left the Nine. Very few if any had practised with a view of supplying their places; so the loss of these players was almost equivalent to the loss of the championship. It is not the fault of the crew that this is the state of affairs, and while we regret their departure we must blame only ourselves...
...Regatta upon the Lake of Geneva will be made most satisfactory in every respect, that it will be conducted upon the most honorable principles, and in strict accordance with the recognized rules of boating, and that all the requirements necessary to insure a most perfect competition for the Championship will be scrupulously and carefully fulfilled...
...promised to row was that the crew should be sent to England, yet there are enough of the old men left to form a nucleus on which to build an eight that could without doubt win another victory for us at New London. Now that we have lost the championship in football, and the prospects in base-ball are anything but encouraging, it devolves upon the crew all the more to sustain the honor and reputation of Harvard, and as all the arrangements for a race with Yale have been completed, it would seem a pity that, because...