AJanuary 04 1920
The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday, January 04, 1920
COLUMBIA BEST AT CHESS
Yale Team Makes Record By Losing All 12 Matches.
New York, Jan. 3. Columbia University won the intercollegiate chess tournament which ended here today with 10½ points out of a possible 12. Harvard, with 7 points, finished second, a half point ahead of Princeton, having defeated the Tiger representative today three games out of four. Yale lost all 12 games, an intercollegiate record.
Columbia, which has won the championship 14 times, made the highest score since Jose R. Capablanca aided the local university in winning the title. C. B. Isaacson and W. R. Thompson, of Columbia, went through the tournament without a defeat.
