Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...statement is constantly made that Harvard won four firsts, three seconds, and six thirds at the Berkeley Oval last Saturday. As a matter of fact Harvard won four firsts, two seconds and eight thirds...
Harvard won the first games for the new cup at Berkeley oval Saturday in a very close and interesting meeting The weather was perfect and the games drew out between four and five thousand spectators. Lee broke his own and the world's record in the 220 yards hurdle race, and R. H. Davis broke the intercollegiate record in the two mile bicycle race; Downs might have broken the record in the quarter, but saved himself for the half...
...Haven Bicycle Club, take place at Hamilton Park, New Haven, June 9. The principal feature of the day will be the team race between Harvard and Yale. The New Haven Bicycle Club has offered a solid silver cup valued at $50, after the style of the Berkeley Oval cup, as a prize to the winner. Each team will consist of three men. The race will be for the greatest number of points. Six judges will be assigned for the race; one from Harvard, one from Yale, and four selected by the New Haven Bicycle Club. A parade has been arranged...
...Princeton won the running broad jump, 21 feet 8 in. Running high jump, scratch, won by G. R. Fearing, Harvard, 5 ft. 8 1-2 in. Half mile run, handicap, won by W. H. Wright, Harvard (25 yards), time 1m. 56 sec. In the tug-of-war, Columbia beat Berkeley by three inches...
Harvard's representatives at the Berkeley Athletic Club and Clyde Park games made a showing that reflects great honor on the college and brighten not a little Harvard's chances of winning the Mott Haven cup. With one world's record broken and one equaled by members of the H. A. A. the college may feel confident of winning one event in which Columbia hoped for first place, and possibly one which Princeton expects to win. On the other hand Yale has strengthened her hold on several events. The intercollegiate games, therefore, will be unusually close, and will probably...