Word: championship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...former gave a pretty exhibition of their stroke, in a so-called race with Yale; at Providence the latter played and won one of the most creditable contests on record. The remarkable manner in which, by steadiness and pluck, Harvard won the last of the games for the championship, is too well known to need further comment; it is not to our past achievements, but to our future athletic interests that we direct our attention at the beginning of another year. It will not be possible for us again to rely on the return of old players, at the last...
...Nine played a remarkably fine up-hill game in the field, and if Ernst will only use as much strategy in the remaining games as he displayed in the last eight innings, Harvard will secure the base-ball championship...
Lamb, as usual, occupied much valuable time in posing for the crowd, and it would seem fitting to introduce in the new rules for the College championship some regulation in regard to unnecessary delay in the delivery of the ball...
...Brunonian is exultant over the success of its nine, and is confident of winning the championship. The "transports of rage" indulged in by the pitcher, which were mentioned by the Advocate, are explained as being caused, not by the decision of the umpire, but by the bad base running of the player. The Athletic Association held its spring meeting May 22. There were thirteen contests, in seven of which the first prize was won by Irons...
...race between Edmund P. Livingstone, who has held the championship at Yale for three years, and Warren N. Goddard, who has been champion at Harvard for two years, took place at Lake Quinsigamond on Friday, May 9, and resulted in an easy victory for Goddard. Following are the particulars of the race...