Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University fencing team has entered a series of matches under the auspices of the New England Division of the Amateur Fencing League of America. The division includes teams from the Boston Athletic Association, the Boston Y. M. C. A., the Providence Fencers' Club and Worcester Fencing Club. The first match will be held on Saturday...
...Lees Knowles, M.P., who accompanied the Oxford and Cambridge athletes to America last fall, gives in the "Empire Review" an account of their visit and makes these interesting observations...
Special events--Two mile run, scratch, indoor championship of America; invitation 40 yards dash, scratch. Novice events--440 yards run, scratch; 40 yards dash, scratch. Handicap events--40 yards dash, 9 feet limit; 600 yards dash, 3 yards limit; 45 yards low hurdle race, 4 flights, 2 feet 6 inches high, 9 feet limit; putting 16 pound shot, 6 inches limit; 3 standing jumps, 1 foot limit; 1000 yards run, 50 yards limit; 1 mile run, 60 yards limit...
...January "Outing" Caspar Whitney selects the All-America football team for 1901 as follows: Graydon of Harvard, fullback; Kernan of Harvard, and Morley (captain) of Columbia, halfbacks; Daly of West Point, quarterback; Bowditch of Har ard, and Snow of Michigan, ends; Cutts of Harvard, and Blagden of Harvard, tackles; Barnard of Harvard, and Hunt of Cornell, guards; Bachman of Lafayette, centre. Substitutes: Cure of Lafayette, fullback; Chadwick of Yale, and Larson of Wisconsin, halfbacks; Brewster of Cornell, quarterback; Campbell of Harvard, and Davis of Princeton, ends; Bunker of West Point, and Curtis of Wisconsin, tackles; Lee of Harvard, and Mills...
...Davis collection contains more than eight thousand lots and includes many remarkably fine specimens. The chief addition to the exhibition collections is a series of Japanese siliceous sponges for the Pacific room. The installation of the Bangs collection of mammals, containing about 10,000 specimens, chiefly from North America, is now complete, and the old museum collection has been incorporated with it in a separate room. The collection includes a large and valuable series of South American mammals which have been received from Messrs. Bangs. The most important additions to the department of ornithology are the collections from the Hawaiian...