Word: pennants
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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...
...then we should beat, and thus the championship becomes ours, what is the most fitting way in which to celebrate, and to express to the nine the gratification which the college feels towards it for its efforts in bringing to Cambridge the pennant which has so long graced the grounds of our old-time rivals? First of all, let every man attend the game and support the nine in a manner befitting its deserts, and when the game is finished and the victory ours, let there go up from old Holmes a shout which will show that Harvard "spirit...
...games played on Saturday last settled the question of the destination of the championship pennant for 1885. While Harvard lengthened its lead by scoring its eighth successive victory, Yale, our most dangerous rival, fell one step more to the rear by dropping a game to Princeton. But while we cannot refrain from a feeling akin to relief that all uncertainty is now removed, we yet can congratulate ourselves upon the fact that Harvard will be indebted for the championship to no other college, for the Harvard nine of 1885 is going to surpass the records of all the colleges...
...snap after the stiffness of travel had worn off. The game was at the end very one-sided, our team scoring almost at pleasure. The result was 6 goais to 0 in our favor. This gives the college championship to Harvard, and the college will receive a handsome silk pennant from the Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association...
...lost it will be as much the fault of the college as of the nine. Yet we are far from advising the nine to trust to its past record for future success. It is only an unbroken succession of victories that can assure us the pennant...