Word: championships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coach in Freshman athletics this year, taking the place of J. F. Powers. He will coach in the weight events on both the University and Freshman teams, and in the jumping and pole-vaulting. Mr. Clark is a capable trainer in track and field athletics, winning the all-round championship of the Amateur Athletic Union in 1897 and in 1903, and has written a standard book on this branch of athletics...
...larger teams. Starting on September 6, a week before the University candidates were called aut, the exceptionally large squad has been drilled steadily and hard for three weeks. The line suffers heavily by the loss of ex-Captain Talbot at tackle and Stillman and Carter at end. With the championship 1918 team to draw from, however, these positions should not be hard to fill. Captain Wilson, shifted from quarter to halfback on account of increased weight, will be the mainstay behind the line. Guernsey and Scovill have been acting as his running mates, while Legore has been playing excellently...
...Williams, 2d, '16, of Boston and W. M. Washburn of New York won the eastern doubles lawn tennis championship at the Longwood Cricket Club on July 31, when they defeated I. C. Wright of Boston and W. F. Johnson of Philadelphia, 3-6, 8-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the final round of the championship match...
...thirty-fifth annual championship tournament of the National Lawn Tennis Association held at Forest Hills, New York, during the first week of September, Williams again climbed into the semi-final round by defeating W. Rand, 3d, '17, 8-6, 7-5, 6-1, in a very close match in the fifth round. Williams was not up to his usual form, Rand forcing him to two deuce sets, and carrying the play far beyond what had been expected. In the semi-final round played the next day, Williams was defeated in a sensational five-set match by W. M. Johnston...
After winning the triangular championship with three successive victories over Princeton and two over Yale, the University baseball team lost the final game of the Yale series, 13 to 0, at Brooklyn on June 26. The University made only 3 hits off Way, and all of these came in the first two innings. The agreement with Yale and Princeton required that the game be played so that the championship could be decided on a percentage basis, even though there was nothing at stake in the contest...