Word: won
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Williams '85, captain of the '85 lacrosse team, which won the intercollegiate championship of the United States, spoke of the successes of former teams and urged the men to work hard for the championship. Mr. Williams will probably coach the team this year...
...done in a few days. There will be two races to determine the college championship of America, as last year. One will be a mile race, each man running a quarter of a mile; the other will be a four mile race, each man running a mile. Harvard has won the mile championship for the past two years. Although thirty colleges and twenty-eight preparatory schools took part in the games last year, the present indications are that there will be a still larger number of competing teams this year. More than sixty colleges and Universities will be invited...
...record, should be so bare and uninteresting and contain so few trophies, compared with the great number that its many teams must have gained. When the Gymnasium was built the room was set aside for the display of photographs of Harvard athletes and athletic teams, of baseballs and footballs won in competition, and of all flags, cups and other trophies which should come into Harvard's possession. It was felt that if these trophies were properly displayed they would be valuable not only as pleasant souvenirs of glorious victories and honorable defeats in the past but as inspirations to redoubled...
...number of flags and pennants, many of which are torn, faded or moth-eaten. In '94 a movement was begun to complete the display. But after a short period of activity, during which were secured the photographs of all the 'Varsity nines since '74 and all baseballs won by Harvard teams in intercollegiate contests, all efforts ceased, and since then comparatively few additions to the number of trophies have been made. There are still missing the photographs of many athletic teams and a large number of balls, bats, and flags won in the past. There are no cups or vases...
...remedy lies with the Athletic Committee. If it should require of the manager of each Harvard team that he should deliver to the Gymnasium authorities at the end of each year or of his term of office all emblems, prizes or trophies which the team has won there would be no further cause for complaint. Some such plan as this, which makes it obligatory on an official in each athletic organization to account for any and all prizes it has obtained, would be effective...