Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent, long-to-be-remembered outrage occurred in San Antonio last year on the final day of the Texas Open Golf Championship. Bobby Cruickshank, diminutive but skillful, came to the 72nd green, found a short putt between himself and victory. The gallery politely turned to stone as Cruickshank commenced to aim. Not a sound was heard as Cruickshank continued to aim. Long, noiseless seconds passed while Cruickshank aimed some more. It was to be an important, lucrative putt. As Cruickshank drew back his putter, a horrid dissonance shattered the atmosphere. From the branches of a nearby tree came thick words...
Neither will Yale play football away from home against any football team except Princeton or Harvard, nor will Yale compete in the National Intercollegiate track meet. With probably the best swimming team in the country for the last three years. Yale scorns to compete in the National Intercollegiate championship meet...
...chiefly to avoid misunderstandings from over-vague wording. Aside from that, the general tendency of the new agreement seems to be to offer more freedom to the independent discretion of the respective Athletic Committees than was permitted under the old regime. Beyond the statement about post-season or sectional championship games, in fact, Yale and Harvard will in the future conduct their athletic policies on the basis of a friendly, but much more highly informal arrangement than existed under the Triple Agreement...
Last year the Harvard and Dartmouth sextets came neck and neck down the home stretch of the hockey season, to clash at the Arena for the mythical Eastern championship. A 3 to 2 triumph for the Crimson, and a victory over Yale in the final of the Eli series brought the laurels to Captain Cumings...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Arena, Crimson and Green will meet again, and again a victory for the University skaters will place them in a position to claim the championship crown if they conquer Yale on Saturday night. Of the Eastern college sextets, Harvard and Dartmouth have the best early season records, and a late-season clash between the two teams assumes all the color of a titular affair...