Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Everyone knows that the club has challenged Yale to a road race, which Yale is making an effort to accept. If the New Haven men are able to get up a team, and have a race, the sport will no doubt become much more popular. Last year a race was held with the Institute of Technology which was fairly successful and did much to put our riders in condition for the Mott Haven games...
...Yale News strongly urges the Bicycle club to accept the challenge of the Harvard Bicycle club to a race, on the grounds that it will revive interest in bicycling at Yale more than any other inducement, and afford invaluable training for the intercollegiate games...
...compete with. Yale has now shown that she intends to treat Princeton on the same basis as before the dissolution of the triple league, and Harvard has never expressed her unwillingness to continue her contests with Princeton. If the Princeton nine wishes to challenge Harvard our team will undoubtedly accept, subject only to the recently imposed condition of playing within New England. The contests with Princeton would be on a footing with those of former years, whether or no Harvard had entered into a dual league with Yale...
There is no truth in the statement that Harvard will challenge Princeton to a series of games, but if Princeton challenges Harvard, Harvard will very probably accept...
...hoped that the Yale Bicycle club will accept the Harvard club's challenge to a team race next spring. Twice last year Yale was invited to arrange a race with Harvard, but each time refused "owing to the general lack of interest in bicycling at New Haven." Now that Yale has won the two-mile bicycle race at the Mott Haven games. the college ought to be more interested in this branch of athletics, and ought to be eager to meet Harvard. Yale can not refuse on the ground of any unsatisfactory conditions in the challenge since every circumstance-"course...