Cabot House solidified its place in Harvard intramural (IM) history by clinching its seventh straight Straus Cup last week to claim sole ownership of the longest winning streak in IM history. The official announcement came during the final House IM meeting last Monday afternoon.

With its seventh straight championship, Cabot broke a record previously held by Kirkland House, which took home six consecutive Strauss Cups in the early 1960s.

“I think this record’s going to stand for a long time,” said Cabot co-athletic secretary Wesley Shih ‘01.

The Cabot victors celebrated their accomplishment at a party in the House junior common room last Friday. The festivities included a rousing introduction by Cabot co-master James Ware, the recognition of outstanding individual achievements and musical parodies of popular songs adapted to fit the IM theme.

Cabot ended the season with 1,588.88 total IM points, narrowly beating out Kirkland, which had 1,531. Pforzheimer House finished third with 1,149.7 points.

This year’s win by Cabot was the closest in the past seven years, with second-place Kirkland only 57 points behind.

Kirkland’s IM program has enjoyed a renaissance under co-coordinators Elisha Yaghmai ’01 and Paul Daubenmire ’01 in recent years.

Kirkland residents said they were also spurred on in the hopes of protecting their House’s decades-old Straus Cup record.