Word: championships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Believing that the object of the national ranking is to name the players in the relative order of their skill, irrespective of what titles and championships they have won, M. E. McLaughlin, of San Francisco, Cal., has been placed at the head of the tennis ranking list for 1914 by the national tennis committee. Although R. N. Williams, 2d, '16, of Philadelphia, Pa., defeated McLaughlin for the championship at Newport, he is rated second, as the Californian's work in the international Davis Cup matches was of a much higher calibre. This is the first time in the 35 years...
...series of such matches planned for the future. The final schedule for the University team has not yet been settled upon, but the tentative list contains matches with Bowdoin, Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Annapolis, Williams, Yale, Pennsylvania and Columbia. The team will also enter the intercollegiate championship series. The preliminary match of the northern division of the association, including Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Bowdoin will be held here about the middle of March, and the finals will be held in New York, probably the first week in April...
...year 1914 among college athletic teams has shown no great advantage of one college over any other. In many branches of sport, the various institutions have been so closely matched that it has been very difficult to determine to whom the championship should be awarded. This is so true of the past intercollegiate baseball season that no award has been made. The title of champion in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse is given to those who lead their respective leagues, while in track, swimming, gymnastics, cross-country, golf, fencing, and wrestling the results of the intercollegiate tournaments are used...
...college won more than one major sport championship, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton each gaining this honor. Cornell leads in the number of highest honors won with four wins and one tie to its credit, Harvard comes next with two wins, and two shared with Princeton in golf and tennis, Columbia third with two wins and one tie, and Princeton fourth with one championship and two ties. It is interesting to note that these are also the four colleges to win major sport titles. Johns Hopkins, New York University, Pennsylvania, and Yale each have one highest honor to their credit...
...Freshman class are invited to attend a reception which will be tendered to the members of the Gore Hall eleven which won the interdormitory championship, in the Common Room of Gore Hall on Monday evening at 6.30 o'clock. Fourteen miniature footballs will be given out to the members of the Gore team, and Dr. Paul Withington, '10, and several of the football coaches will speak...