Word: championed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...name of the organization shall be the Interscholastic Football Association, all schools in Boston and vicinity to be eligible to membership; the president of the association must be the captain of the team winning first place in the senior league, and the vice-president the captain of the champion team of the junior league; the executive committee to consist of the captain of the Harvard football team, three undergraduates of the schools in the league, with the president ex officio and two graduates of Harvard...
...will contest in the semifinals are Fitz of Newton High School, Whitman of Hopkinson's, Ware of Roxbury Latin, and Butters of Concord High. All of these men did some good playing during the day, and the finals should be very interesting. Ware is last year's champion, but is not quite up to his old form. Whitman won his five matches with only the loss of two games, and may give Ware a hard fight...
Saturday was a day of victories for Harvard, a day full of promise for the rest of the season. Even the defeat of the lacrosse team was far from discouraging (it is no sign of weakness to fall but a single point behind the intercollegiate champion of last year); and in lacrosse alone was Harvard beaten. The University, junior and freshman nines, and the University cricket, fencing, and whist teams were all successful. So too, though not in competition with another college, was the track athletic team. We congratulate them all on their excellent work, and are confident that...
Thrall, the mile walker, has broken the the collegiate record of 7 min. 6 sec., and the fact that the American champion, Liebgold, has entered in the games next week will give Thrall a chance to show his best work. Thrall is backed to win the walk in the Harvard-Yale and intercollegiate games this year...
Yale's freshman hurdler, Edward C. Perkins, the Hartford boy, is speeding along in such a promising manner that the indications are that he will run the present intercollegiate champion, Cady of Yale, off his feet. Perkins gets a great start, and in the big hurdles leads Cady to the finish. Cady, Perkins and Hatch, the last another new comer in the event, are clearing the hurdles close to 16s. flat in the 120 yards...