Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard wins in the game with Brown this afternoon the championship pennant will float on Holmes Field next year. We have good reason to feel confident as to the result, but let there be no relaxation on the nine's part. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," says the old proverb, and Harvard at different times has had the truth of the maxim sorely impressed upon her. The championship undoubtedly hangs upon this game, for if defeated by the weakest club in the inter-collegiate league, how can we expect to overcome our strongest opponents...
...Yale, '86, 2m. 45 2 5s.; one mile handicap, H. H. Stockton, on an allowed foul, 3m. 6 3 5s.; A. B. Rich came in first; two miles without hands, F. F. Ives, 6m. 39s.; one mile, 3.10 class, E. A. Hoffman, 3m. 7 1 5s.; 20 mile, Pope cup, D. E. Hunter, 1h. 14m. 5s. In this last race, by an unfortunate accident, H. S. Kavanaugh took a header and Hamilton and Hunter fell on top of him. Kavanaugh was considerably bruised and Hamilton quite severely injured. Hunter quickly mounted his bicycle and finally won the race...
...first spring meeting of the New York State Inter collegiate Athletic Association was held at Geneva, N. Y., on May 30th. Cornell wins the cup with eight first prizes and three second, and Hamilton comes next with five firsts and two seconds...
...Yale College Bicycle Club will hold a meeting at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on next Friday and Saturday. Hendee, American champion; Hamilton, college champion; Hunter, winner of the Pope cup; Wait, Parsons, Webber, and Allston are among the entries. The leading features of the first day will be the mile tandem race by Palmer and Thompson; Hendee's endeavor to beat the world's record for one mile, and the twenty mile Pope cup race. On the second day will be run the twenty five mile L. A. W. championship of America. Part of the proceeds will be devoted...
...winning of the inter-collegiate championship was, in itself, honor enough for the lacrosse team, but when that achievement is supplemented by the capture of the Oelrichs cup, emblematic of the championship of America, the college may justly feel proud of its representatives in this sport. The work of the twelve during the past year has been faithful and hard,- its result has been shown in the series of almost uninterrupted victories won from strong teams. The lacrosse team of '82 held both the college championship and the Oelrichs cup; the '83 team held the collegiate championship only...