Word: medalist
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April 21--Second to Princeton in big Three meet, Spence Fitzgibbons 70 wins medalist honors...
...stakes for collegiate players were much higher at the turn of the century, when golf was an infant sport in America played by well-bred, easy-going elite at a handful of schools. Whichever of the three Ivy powerhouses prevailed became the United States Intercollegiate Champion. The Big Three medalist was enthroned as that year's individual Intercollegiate Champion...
Although Yale won the first team title, Louis P. Bayer Jr. from Princeton emerged as the nation's first individual intercollegiate champion. The next year, Harvard dethroned the Elis while the Crimson's J.F. Curtis was medalist. The third year the three schools met Reid finished first, as each college had then had a national champion. Percy Pyne Jr. won for Princeton in 1900, H. Lindsley took the title for Harvard in 1901, and Yale's Charles Hitchcock...
Harvard's number two man Spence Fitzgibbons was the medalist for the match, humbling the 6380 Springdale layout with six birdies for a one under par 70. Captain Alex Vik posted a 74 while Dave Paxton and Ron Himmelman shot 78 and 79, respectively...
...holes over the Agawam Hunt golf course in the Ivy League Championship yesterday. Vik reeled off rounds of 73 and 69 to finish at even par, but Tervainen riposted by matching Vik's 69 in the afternoon after carding a morning round of 71 to come away with medalist honors...