Word: championships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this team's member gain anything for his college or eleven by deliberately breaking a fundamental rule and thus losing a well-earned victory that could have been secured? Do the coaches and team members ever intelligently take into consideration what it costs to lose a championship game by trying unfair methods...
This year marked the third season of the new system in intercollegiate soccer, the playing of the championship series in the fall. This recent revision in the former program of the intercollegiate soccer league resulted, as last year, in finding the team in rather ragged condition for the first few games, and probably caused defeat by a 4 to 2 score at the hands of Princeton in the first league game of the season. Four practice games preceded the contest with Princeton and each of the opposing teams, Prospect Union, Andover, Springfield and the Law School were defeated in turn...
...University led in championships in Eastern intercollegiate athletics during the year of 1916 by winning four championships. Cornell and Princeton each have three to their credit and Yale and Pennsylvania two. Baseball is divided between the University, Tufts and Columbia. In percentages Columbia led with only one defeat but less victories than either of the other teams. They played neither Tufts nor the University. The latter team defeated Tufts, but lost a few more games. It is generally conceded, however, that the University had the championship nine last spring...
...final debate for the interclass championship will be held in Sever 17 this evening at 8 o'clock, when the Junior and Sophomore teams will meet. The subject will be: "Resolved, that the United States should establish a temporary protectorate in Mexico until order and stable government are assured...
Also it is obviously impossible to select a championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...