Word: championships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Captain Nash of last year's championship team, and S. Smith '09, who coached the Freshman team last spring have been assisting the new men this week. About 50 candidates have already reported...
Last spring the team tied with Haverford for first place in the Intercollegiate Association Football League, the championship being awarded to Haverford because of the latter's higher goal average. A large number of players on the successful 1911 team had no previous knowledge of the game and it is hoped that many men will report immediately, as the first few days will be devoted to the rudiments of soccer. A second eleven will be organized and a schedule arranged...
Under the new athletic regime at Princeton, which has for a director William W. Roper, the Tigers made a successful bid for more athletic honors than they are wont to secure. They won the championship in wrestling, beyond dispute. After carefully considering all the claimants to the baseball championship it would seem that Princeton is more deserving of this mythical honor than any other institution, with Cornell, Amherst and Williams following in order named. Princeton is awarded the title not because the Tigers won more games or lost less than any of their rivals, but because they did better...
Columbia did about as was expected in basketball by winning the intercollegiate championship. Only twice since the organization of this association have the Columbians lost the title. Both times the victor was Pennsylvania. Columbia's failure to make good in any of the minor sports was somewhat of a surprise for the reason that the New Yorkers pay very little attention to the major sports, and since they dropped football they have been concentrating on the minors...
...other sports the cricket championship went to the University of Pennsylvania. Last year the Quakers by winning the track and baseball championship and figuring prominently in other sports, divided the athletic honors of the year with Yale, but this year their team failed to make good in the usual manner, and as a result they are in the same scoring class as the minor institutions. This is a predicament in which every big university finds itself at some time or another. Haverford, as usual, won the association football title and Cornell the fencing championship...