Word: championships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Haven. Harvard at first proposed a series of four games, with a fifth in case of a tie. This we found by the experience of two years ago was extremely unadvisable. During that year, on account of a tie game with Princeton, we were forced to play nine championship games in a limited season, which was found to be disastrous to the playing ability of our nine. In order not to undergo the chance of having to experience such a strain again we refused to agree to play more than three games. Harvard waived the point but objected to playing...
...tropical championship tournament will be held at St. Augusine on March...
...feeling at Columbia is generally in favor of rowing Yale and Harvard at New London. Harvard and Columbia are tie in the championship series, each college having won six races. Yale rowed Columbia in '86, '90 and '91, winning the race in '90. Thus by the unwritten laws of boating, it is Yale's turn to challenge. There is a general sentiment against rowing Cornell, not arising from the success of the latter's crews, but rather from the fact that they draw their material from the first-year men of all departments, while Columbia takes men from the undergraduate...
...competition for the amateur championship of the United States will take place in the B. A. A. shooting gallery February...
...tennis tournament for the national tropical championship will begin at St. Augustine March 23. In spite of the absence of champion O. S. Campbell in Europe the affair will be of increasing interest, as more high-class experts than ever before are to compete. Among those expected being Messrs. V. G. Hall and Edward W. Hall of New York; F. H. Hovey the veteran champion of Harvard College and several English cracks, who will lend the affair an air of international importance...