Word: championships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Fencing Club has received an invitation from the New York Athletic Club to enter a team to compete for the Shaw Cup, offered for the team championship of the Amateur Fencers' League of America...
...club has also been invited to send a team of three to compete for the junior team championship, for nonmedal men, to be held at the New York Fencers' Club on April...
...Harvard lacrosse team, which for several consecutive years had held the intercollegiate championship of the United States, was forced to disband largely on account of financial embarassment. Last year the team was re-organized, but consisted almost entirely of new men. In the spring, the team, picked from twenty candidates, did creditable work. It played the best teams, never failed to score, and when defeated, it was only by one or two goals. The record at the end of the season was 17 goals against 22 for its opponents, a remarkably good record for a first year team. This team...
Article 5 of the by-laws is to be amended to provide for the following championship events: Running-100 yards dash, 220 yards dash, one-quarter mile run, one half mile run, one mile run, three mile run; hurdle racing-120 yards, 10 hurdles, 3 ft. 6 in.; 220 yards, 10 hurdles, 2 ft. 6 in.; walking, one mile; running broad jump; running high jump; pole-vaulting; putting 16 pound shot, bicycle racing, one-quarter mile, one-half mile, one mile, five miles, one mile for tandem teams...
Another amendment provides for the order of these events, and a fourth amends the rules to govern the award of the championship cup by adding that the bicycle races shall be counted as a whole upon the basis of ten points for the university or college winning the highest agregate of points in these races, four points for the second and two points for the third...