Word: championships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to statistics complied by the Boston Transcript, Cornell holds the athletic supremacy for the academic year 1910-1911. This is the first time since Cornell has entered intercollegiate athletics that she has acquired this position. By winning the championship in five separate sports the Ithacans have beaten the total of 4 1-2 made by Yale, and exceeded anything ever done in this country. Counting each sport as one pint the scores of the first eight institutions follow: Cornell 5, Yale 4 1-2, Harvard 2, Princeton 2, Columbia 1, Pennsylvania 1, Haverford 1, and the Navy 1. Sport...
...ones, no fair-minded critic will question the right of Cornell's athletes to rank first this year. Yale and Pennsylvania are the only other universities that ever won such high honors in a single year, and when it is considered that Cornell, had some claim to the baseball championship as well, which is here awarded to Princeton, it may be stated that Cornell's 1911 record is just a little bit superior to anything ever done by either Pennsylvania or Yale...
...individual championship F. T. Clarke '12 was the only man to win a match, defeating J. G. McNeil '12 4 up and 3 to play. G. Stanley of Yale won the individual championship...
...greatest possible satisfaction to Harvard men. Playing on a strange field on the one day of the year when the home team is almost always victorious; at a time when factors other than unfamiliarity with the grounds tend to put a high premium on steadiness, the Harvard nine played championship baseball to the end. Of the coolness which the team developed despite every inducement to the opposite, too much praise cannot be given. Throughout the game the men seemed to possess that exact balance between confidence and anxiety so difficult to acquire and equally difficult to maintain. In short...
...projected race between the upperclass championship crews of Harvard and Yale is exactly the sort of encouragement that our present rowing situation demands. Oarsmanship has developed so fast and so far during the past few years, that only men of very exceptional ability can make their "H" in this sport, and only men who are far above the common run are taken to the quarters...