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Word: pennants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...games Saturday '87 won three prizes, '86 two, and the Law School one. This gives '87 a fine lead for the pennant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/15/1886 | See Source »

...Saturday's meeting '87 won three prizes; '86, '88, '89 and Law School one each. It seems likely that '87 will retain the pennant which she won last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/8/1886 | See Source »

...cost us many a game in the past, but of late a better era of things seems to have come in. New methods have taken the place of those found inadequate. New men have come forward to put them into practice. This year will witness the unfurling of the pennant won in '85, and, unless we are far too sanguine in our forecast, it will also witness the winning of the same pennant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/2/1886 | See Source »

...York College Association held its annual meeting Jan. 29 in Syracuse, N. Y., delegates being present from Cornell, Hamilton, Hobart, Rochester, Syracuse and Union Colleges. The championship pennant was awarded to Cornell, the nine from that college not having lost a game. Rochester was expelled from the association on the ground that its team disbanded to escape paying guarantees to visiting teams. The executive committee was given power to admit the Troy Polytechnic team to the association and fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Rocherter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/5/1886 | See Source »

...looked as though Cornell was not to be represented in the inter-collegiate contests of 1885. No men were in training, and no interest show in the navy; yet Cornell sent out one of the strongest crews that has ever gone forth to capture the inter-collegiate pennant or win the challenge cup. When the state of affairs last year is contrasted with their present condition, how different is the prospect. If the men who have gone into training so early keep up their practice with as much enthusiasm as they have begun, there is a promise that this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/28/1886 | See Source »

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