Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting to compare the best English college records with the best performances of college athletes in America. It seems that out of a total of eleven events the Englishmen hold eight, the American colleges two, while one event, the 100 yards dash, is a tie, at 10 seconds. The following is a carefully prepared table showing the best records so far announced, for American and English colleges...
...Woodcock, the college professional. Their captain, Bailey, is on the first eleven of the Merion C. C. He bowls fast round arm, with a good deal of curve and break. Martin, a slow bowler with a both off and leg-break is on the first eleven of the Young America club. Muir one of the best batsmen is on the eleven of the Belmont club...
Haverford College defeated the Young America's of Philadelphia at cricket last Saturday by a score...
...thought the deficiency can be made up by next fall. The building will be three stories in height, with a high studded basement. Particular attention is to be paid to the sanitary arrangement, the idea being to have the building the most perfect of its kind in America. The outside will probably be stone, though unless sufficient money is raised, the committee will have to content themselves with brick...
Charles G. Psotta of Cornell, the a mateur single scull champion of America, has departed for Europe. At the Henley regatta he will carry the Cornell colors...