Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seeing that Harvard and Yale have in an unsportsmanlike manner agreed to make a combine or trust and play exclusive football between themselves, the Philadelphia Item has decided to offer a silver football valued at $250, as a trophy for competition, emblematic of the intercollegiate football championship of America, open for competition among all colleges of America, Harvard and Yale barred...
Only three days remain in which the freshmen may prepare for their contest at Yale; at the end of that time it must be decided whether the freshman championship shall remain here or shall go to Yale. Of course there is but one wish throughout the university that our eleven shall win. The freshman football teams of the past three years have established a precedent which must not be broken. At the same time our team must work if they would succeed. The fact that very little has been heard of Yale's freshman team this year is no criterion...
...following football games will be played tomorrow: Pennsylvania vs. Wesleyan, championship game, Berkeley Oval, New York (morning), W. C. Camp, referee, George Young, umpire; Yale vs. Princeton, championship game, Berkeley Oval, New York (afternoon), W. A. Brooks, referee, J. A. Saxe, umpire; Rochester vs. Union, Elmira; Stevens Institute vs. Dartmouth, Hoboken; University of Virginia vs. Johns Hopkins, Charlottes ville, Va.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology vs. Boston Athletic Association, (morning), Boston; University of Michigan vs. college graduates, Chicago; Cornell vs. Lafayette, Syracuse...
...championship of the smaller intercollegiate football league was practically settled Saturday morning by Dartmouth's victory over Williams. At the end of the first half the score was five to nothing in favor of Williams, but Dartmouth braced strongly in the next half and scored five touchdowns to William's one, leaving the final score twenty to nine. At the Berkeley oval, New York, Cornell defeated Columbia twenty to nothing. The last game of the season was played at Princeton, the Orange Athletic club being defeated by a score of 54 to 6. Pennsylvania won from Lehigh at Philadelphia, fourteen...
...loss of the Yale game Harvard takes third place in the championship series. Though the season has not been as successful as we hoped and expected it would be, yet there is much in the record of the eleven of which we may justly be proud. In practice the men have trained hard and faithfully, and in the great games they have made every exertion to win. A closer or better contested game than that of Saturday could hardly be imagined. In so slight a defeat there is no disgrace. It can safely be said that no Harvard eleven...