Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, November 9, the annual College tournament will begin from which the members of this year's team will be picked. A large number of candidates are expected by Coach Cowles to enter the competition for positions on the squad. Graduation hit last year's national championship team hard by taking W. P. Dixon '25, national individual title holder, and E. M. Upjohn '25. Captain Debevoise and H. N. Rawlins '27, are the only veterans left, but there are several of last year's Freshmen and second team players who will compete for berths on Team A this fall...
...past, professional football ha thrilled the sporting public about as deeply as the national chess tournament. It is a herald of a new era, therefore, to learn that the New York Football Giants, a professional team, have found it necessary to hire a cheer leader and band for their home games. The public, of course, is accustomed to taking its football with a good deal of seltzer in the shape of organized noise, and if sport enthusiasts are to be enticed into transferring their favor from college to professional games, nothing should be spared to make them feel at home...
With the most brilliant exhibition of tennis produced throughout the tournament, J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, captain of this year's tennis team, swept aside the desperate resistance offered by Alden Briggs 1 G. B., to capture the University singles title yesterday in straight sets, 6-1, 6-0, 6-4. At the same time G. H. Perkins '26, was never in danger in his final match with P. M. Lenhart '27 for the Union singles crown, which he won in three successive sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Both matches were fast and of championship calibre despite...
...brilliant rallies on practicaly every point. From the start, however, Whitbeck was the agressor, driving forcefully and taking the net at every opportunity. The former scholastic champion whipped stinging backhand and forehand drives across the net with amazing regularity until Briggs, one of the steadiest players in the tournament, would finally err into the net or out of bounds...
...doubles Competition seeded players received a setback from outsiders for the first time in the tournament, when T. E. Jansen Jr., '26 and W. T. Smith '26, after dropping the first set, railled and pulled out the next two and the match, 6 4, 6 4, from L. H. Gordon '27 and P. M. Lenhart...