Word: championships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Foote, of Yale; Wm. E. Larned, of Brown, and G. B. Matteson, of Brown. All are well known in the tennis world. The first contest will take place December 27 and the trip includes a series of eight games played in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston. No championship will be played for and none awarded. Captain Chace stated tonight that he wished it understood that his team represented no college in particular. He said that the trip was taken merely as a pleasure trip by a body of sportsmen and not as an international affair...
...HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 12. - Walter Camp, the Yale football advisor, today returned from California, where he has been for two months coaching the Leland Stanford University football team. He is in improved health, and expresses himself as delighted by the showing made by Yale in the championship contests against Harvard and Princeton. He expects that the graduate athletic advisory committee, of which he is one, will consult soon regarding the alleged charges made by Yale against the University of Pennsylvania...
PHILADELPHIA, PENN., NOV. 30. - A rumor was freely circulated here to the effect that the University of Pennsylvania football team had decided to send a challenge to Yale in order to settle all dispute as to the championship. When questioned upon the subject a director of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association said: "No action has yet been taken on the question of again challenging Yale and the matter has not been officially considered. I can say, however, that should Yale defeat. Princeton tomorrow, it is highly probable that a special meeting of the athletic association will be called...
Union College has won the championship in New York State intercollegiate football league...
Norman W. Cabot '98, of Brookline, left end, prepared for college at Hale and Noble's School, where he was last year captain of the eleven which won the junior championship. He has been playing on the freshman eleven until very recently. Age 17, height 5 ft. 11 in., weight...