Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the lack of ice on Saturday, the hockey management was obliged to cancel the game which was to have been played with Cornell. The Cornell team was unable to wait over in hopes of colder weather...
...reasons for this step. Some said that Harvard and the Boston Athletic Association conspired to defeat Yale by insisting on a short run, but that they were foiled by Yale's withdrawing from the meet. Others volunteered the extraordinary opinion that Harvard foresaw defeat, and decided to cancel the race. Of course these rumors were all wrong. Yale had prepared a relay team for a two-mile run, while the Harvard team was trained for less than half that distance. The officials of the meet then announced that to save time they would have a short race, each...
...Columbia crew management has threatened to disband the university and freshman crews unless more men report for practice. Columbia would then be forced to withdraw from the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie and cancel the race scheduled to be rowed with the University crew on the Charles River on April...
...Harvard team before leaving for the southern trip held but five days of outdoor practice, owing to the bad conditions of weather and grounds, and for the same reason was compelled to cancel all the games scheduled previous to the trip. As a result, although the men have progressed fairly well in individual work, they have not developed either the team work or the confidence which can come from practice games only. So far as can be judged thus early in the season, the team fields well and is fairly good at the bat. The base running...
Owing to a misunderstanding between the basketball management and the Athletic Committee concerning the number of outside games, it has been found necessary to cancel the three remaining games of the intercollegiate schedule, which are as follows: February 27, Cornell, at Cambridge; March 5, Yale, at Cambridge; March 12, Yale, at New Haven. Both the University and second teams have therefore disbanded...