Word: championships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year, Harvard's contention appears to have been a fair one. It was only her action which stopped all the colleges on the headlong path to professionalism dong which they were plunging. Harvard held that leagues were responsible for half the evils of athletics, because they forced an unreal "championship" upon the competing colleges, which came to be more valued than the game itself. They furnished the basis for mean trading, disreputable contentions and continual bickering which reflected much discredit on college athletics. It is not necessary to cite instances; the history of all college leagues stands as proof...
...Crescent foot ball team has just defeated the Orange team by a score of 140. This ties the two elevens for the American Foot Ball Union championship...
...York bearing the name of Harvard. We saw no objection to a few members of the B. A. A. going as such, to play a game of foot ball whenever they pleased, but the fact that certain persons have seen fit to characterize the proposed game as practically a championship game between Harvard and Princeton, seemed to change the conditions, seemed to change the conditions entirely. We were not astonished in the least when we heard that the Harvard men had given up the trip, for it was no part of the intention of those who thought of going...
...Saturday, Dec. 20th, the "Rovers" and "Olympics," both of Fall River, will play a game of association football on Jarvis field for the championship of New England. Cups will be given to the winners out of the proceeds of the game, but outside of that all receipts will be handed over to the university crew. Since this game cannot but be interesting in many ways an excellent chance is presented to college men to help out the crew in a more pleasant way than by subscriptions...
...will hold its annual 10 mile championship run, and 2 mile championship steeplechase, on Dec. 13, 1890, in New York, under the auspices of the Manhattan A. C. Entries close...