Word: championship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVERAL times lately we have seen it mentioned that the New York Polo Club intend to offer a cup valued at five hundred dollars as a prize for the foot-ball championship of next year. Six colleges - Yale, Princeton, and Harvard among them - are to be allowed to contend for this prize, and we presume the intention is to offer the same cup each year. As yet no notice in regard to such action on the part of the Polo Club has been received by our team, but should such a prize be offered, it would tend to increase...
...meeting of the club Wednesday evening it was voted that the regular fall championship match take place Saturday, December 16. To give interest to the match competitors will be divided into two classes; to the first any member will be admitted, to the second none who have ever made a score of thirty-eight or more out of a possible fifty in any match whatsoever. Of course no second-class man will be entitled to a first-class prize...
...shoot, but the excellent condition of the club and the interest taken in rifle-shooting were shown by the large number of men who entered for the match. The weather has changed so decidedly during the week, that we hope for more satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match is not very distant. Although we do not believe in keeping up a sport on account of an expected contest, we trust that an intercollegiate contest will...
Amherst.- The base-ball championship has been...
...base-ball championship has been won by '78. The last game between '77 and '78 was won by the latter by a score...