Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Walker '20 and T. M. Avery '21, Coach W. H. Claflin Jr. '15, last year's coach, and again at the helm this winter, will have an abundance of proven material with which to develop a team to retain possession of the Intercollegiate Hockey Title which was won by the University last year. He will be aided from time to time by Coach A. Winsor '02, the father of the "Harvard Hockey System," and to hockey what Haughton has been for football...
Sport writers and sport fans of the middle west are agitating an intersectional football game, a battle between the champion of the east and the champion of the west. Not to be boasting of a championship before it is won, it is nevertheless stating truth to say that the agitators are even more explicit and have their heart set on that game being contested between Harvard and Illinois. Apropos of which we rise to remark with a loud voice and urge the agitators to keep...
...World War brought a flood of war orders that increased our normal demand tremendously. Prices rose. When we went in three years later, it not only multiplied demand once more but it took some four million men out of productive industry. Prices climbed rapidly. When the war was won everybody felt that we would revert back to the "good old days." Instead of going to work to make up the shortage of goods, however, we experienced a general let-down in industry. Labor went on a vacation. Supply dwindled. At the same time the Government found processes of war financing...
Holy Gross won much prestige by turning back Syracuse, a team which has proved the enigma of the season from the point of view of "Sunday Coaches." After a preliminary season marked by prodigious scoring against weak opponents, the ponderous Orange team fought Pitt to a tie, and defeated Dartmouth. Then every bit of advance calculation went to the eternal bow-wows when Holy Cross by a single field goal defeated Syracuse. It was thought that Meehan's "Big Team" had staged a comeback when Washington and Jefferson was thwarted 14-0; but along came Maryland State unpretentiously, and aided...
...last week means simply this: every Harvard man back of the team, every man, with a ticket to New Haven in his pocket, ready to contribute all he can to overcome the handicap of facing a fighting mad Yale team on its home field. The game is not won yet; it won't be won at all if Harvard supporters minimize the task that is ahead of the Crimson team...