Word: winning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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LOWELL. JAN., 17, 1901. The Harvard basketball team defeated the Lowell Y. M. C. A. last evening by a score of 17 to 15. The playing was very even throughout, and it was only by very fast work that Harvard was able to win...
...second day's play Columbia took first place by defeating Yale, and Harvard second place by defeating Princeton. Harvard's only chance at the opening of the third round was that Princeton should win two games from Columbia and that Harvard should defeat Yale. But Harvard lost to Yale and Princeton to Columbia, thus giving Columbia a lead of 2 1-2 points. The game between Sawin (Y) and Perry (H) in the final round is considered the most brilliant in the history of intercollegiate chess. Perry was forced to resign after no less than twenty four moves...
...vice-president, C. D. Barnes, of Yale; secretary and treasurer, S. P. Nash, of Columbia. It was decided to have the 1901 championship tournament begin on May 7, but the course has not yet been chosen. A committee was appointed to procure another cup in ease Harvard or Yale win, as a victory on the part of either of these two will secure permanent possession of the present...
...trophy played for is offered by Mr. I. N. Rice of New York. It has been won twice by Cambridge and Oxford and, unless the American colleges win this year, the shield becomes the property of the English colleges. The game has been usually played by the American colleges in New York, the Associated Press furnishing the cable; but this year Harvard is making an effort to have the match played in Boston...
...well-deserved victory belongs to Yale. Harvard was outclassed in every department of the game but one; and, although the team played with good spirit and did not give up until the end, it had met a superior opponent and at no time had a chance to win...