Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During this time the Class A players have gained the Massachusetts State championship each year, and this year's victory crowns an unparalleled record In 1925 they journeyed to Buffalo to win the National Team Championship. W. P. Dixon '25, who led the Crimson forces, annexed the National Individual title in the same year. In 1926 the University court men continued their undefeated march and retained the National crown. Following this string of victories, the Crimson racquet men scored clean sweeps over the Yale players...
...Class B. players have been equally successful. In 1924, 1925, and 1926, they annexed the Class B state championship. During the two seasons of 1924-1925 and 1925-1926, the University teams played 87 matches and lost only eight. Out of the 26 matches played so far this season, they have dropped four...
...Comstock of Minnesota, has just regained the national coffee-drinking championship downing 85 cupfulls in seven hours and a quarter. The pride of his state, he is not the first to find the alimentary canal a passage to fame. The ability to swallow the unusual has always commanded the admiration of mankind. Probably the interest in this kind of performance arises form the complete universality of its equipment. All of us dabble in the art to some extent, and even a man who has only choked on a fishbone can appreciate the greatness of one who has swallowed a sword...
...final match of the season on Saturday afternoon, the Harvard Squash Racquets, team defeated the Boston Athletic Association by a 3 to 2 score, thereby retaining the championship of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association for another year. This is the fourth successive year that the Crimson court men have been victorious in the Class A series. During this time, the University players have not lost a match. They were National Team Champions...
...Class B series, the Harvard players scored a clean sweep when they defeated the Weston Club, gaining fourth place in the Inter-club championship race. The Freshman court men rank eighth in the Class C series by virtue of a 5 to o victory over the Newton Club...