Word: championship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although the University baseball team has won but seven of the eighteen games which it has played up to the present Yale series, it may yet win the championship of the "Big Three" by scoring victories, today and tomorrow. By winning two of the three contests with Princeton, the nine put itself in a position to end a previously mediocre season by victories over its two chief rivals...
This afternoon two baseball teams with diametrically opposite records will face each other at New Haven. The Yale team, with a nucleus from last year's unbeaten nine, was expected to have another championship season. Its three early victories and the rise of a new star pitcher bade fair to fulfill this prophecy. But, in spite of its favorable start, the Eli craft has had a rocky voyage. A long losing streak, in which the pitching hope was twice driven from the box, has spread a cloud of gloom over Yale's great expectations...
...colleges which in normal years would have boasted to secure a handful of hits from the "big red team," a change has taken place in the Crimson camp. Men whose ball playing had been scarcely of the "corner lot" variety for the first two months, came back in championship form. By winning the Princeton series and shutting out Boston College, Captain McLeod's men have shown that unfavorable pre-season "dope" is no obstacle to a persevering team...
...Yale-baseball team which the University nine will face tomorrow has not lived up to early season expectations. Although a nucleus of veterans from last spring's championship team returned to college this year, the nine has won four, lost five, and been forced to cancel nine games...
...first game of the championship series with Princeton showed both teams in excellent form, and on runs were scored by either side, until the Tigers pushed across the winning tally in the eleventh inning. On Saturday, the Elis tied the series by scoring a 5-3 victory at Princeton. In that game all but one of the Blue runs could be traced to errors in the Tiger infield...