Word: championships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard will also be represented by three men at the junior invitation tournament, to be held at the Fencers' Club in New York, April 1 and 2. Several of the candidates may enter the preliminaries for the National Championship of the Amateur Fencing League of America. This tournament will take place March 25 and 26 in Boston, for the members of the New England division. Those who make a total of 60 per cent. in their bouts will be entitled to compete for the National Championship at the B. A. A. during the first part of May. In addition...
...date of the intercollegiate tournament was set for the first week in May, Wednesday and Thursday being occupied by the team matches, Friday by the qualifying round of the individual championship. This is to be a medal round of 36 holes, best four to qualify for match play on the following day, Saturday, May 7. The team tournament is, as before, open to any American college, though the executive committee exercises supervision over the entry list. Teams are to consist of six men, as last year, and the tournament will again be played over the Ardsley links...
Another amendment is the substitution of a three mile run in place of the one mile walk. This amendment, however, is not to go into effect until after the next set of championship games. The changing of the order of events, so that the 440 yards dash will be preceded by the one mile run instead of followed by it, as formerly, also will not take effect until the games...
...last amendment which will be made is a change of one section of the rules regulating the awarding the championship cup. As changed it will read as follows: "In bicycle as well as field event points shall be counted as follows: A first place shall count five points; a second place shall count three points; a third place shall count two points; a fourth place shall count one point." However there will be no fourth prize...
...were heartily glad when Yale challenged Cornell, for we earnestly wished to row a return race with the men who beat us so magnificently last spring. But we were also glad to see that Yale had still no wish to compete for any general championship, sticking to her natural rival and making no alliance that could endanger the preeminence of this rivalry. To Harvard we are bound by long series of contests in every branch of sport, by the similarity between the two universities in positions and institutions, by the strong ties of alumni friendships and rivalry...