Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gore Hall's quintet has walked away with the Freshman title, as the intramural basketball season nears its close. The Sophomores, leading the Inter-Class League, can clinch their championship by defeating the Seniors this afternoon. In the Fraternity series, only four games remain, two tonight at 7 and 8 o'clock, and two tomorrow at the same times, all in the Freshman Gymnasium...
Playing on the home Arena, the powerful Eli skating combination is the marked odds-on-favorite to repeat its victory of last Saturday and clinch the series. A Yale victory will definitely give the New Haven six sole claim to the mythical intercollegiate hockey title and with it the first Crimson-Blue championship since 1925, when the great Jenkins-led team from Connecticut proved its supremacy over the University in a climactic string of contests...
...sleeve, but if they work out as well as time-trials indicate, some of the races will provide eye-openers. Certain events that are conceded to the Green and Cornelian may be captured by Harvard and it is quite within the reach of the Harvard team to clinch the meet for the fifth successive year by 9.10 o'clock on Saturday night--one full hour before the varsity relay is scheduled...
With honors in the sabre and epee events equally divided, the Purple aggregation took five out of the nine foils bouts to clinch its victory...
...English had already won the first test at Brisbane, and the second at Sydney. The third, if they won, would clinch the series for them. Since a test usually lasts for a week or more, the inhabitants of Melbourne had plenty of time to watch. On the first days of play, the crowd was small. Then word got around that the Australians were making a fine stand and the grandstands began to fill...