Word: unbeatens
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...challenge does not constitute it a "varsity team." It is indeed the custom in professional athletics and to some extent also in amateur athletics outside of the college world, for an athletic team to assume the championship of a certain section as long as it is unchallenged and unbeaten, but it is a well-established college precedent that no team should claim to represent the University unless it were formed by a pre-announced and open competition...
...championship. The writer seems to have forgotten that, in that case, Harvard would have won three games and one undecided, and that Princeton would have won three and lost one to the very team with which she would dispute the championship. It would evidently be absurd for an unbeaten college to share the championship with her defeated rival. It would also be out of accordance with the customary foot-ball precedents, by one of which Princeton obtained second place over Harvard in the fall of '81, although each team had won but one game. We think that the Princetonian, upon...
...will be fifty cents, which will go toward partly paying for the prize. An entry-book will be opened at Bartlett's, which will close at 12 M., Monday. The contestants will be drawn in pairs, and the winners of the trials play on until one man remains unbeaten. The place of playing will be written in the entry-book. Umpires and scorer will be appointed later. Those who are interested in Lawn Tennis should not fear to take part in this tournament. Most men are now through their annuals, and this affair is intended to fill...