Historical clue formulations

• Takes gold — 2025-10-01
• Comes out on top — 2024-10-07
• Standings column — 2024-03-03
• See 38-Across — 2021-07-07
• Comes out ahead — 2021-02-07
• Tournament-seeding consideration — 2019-08-24
• "W" column in the standings — 2019-04-08
• Scorecard column — 2013-12-01
• Standings column — 2011-08-24
• Sports column — 2011-08-07
• First part of a record — 2011-06-09
• First part of a record — 2010-05-09
• Season tally — 2009-11-14
• Victories — 2005-12-13
• Comes out on top — 2005-07-26
• Sports column — 2005-05-20
• Sports column? — 2003-10-17
• Successes — 2001-11-13
• Team data — 1998-11-14
• First number in season records — 1998-07-13
• Sports page stats — 1996-06-22
• Comes in first — 1995-10-10