Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...broken up; the interest of our athletes is rightly transferred to other things than athletics; and there is here, as elsewhere, a general feeling that formal and important intercollegiate contests would be out of place at such a time as this. It is with great regret that we cancel our games. I have little doubt that your experience and your wishes are much like ours...
...Graduate Advisory Track Committee voted last night to cancel the track schedule immediately upon the declaration of war. But although all formal meets with other colleges will be abandoned as soon as war is declared, informal and intramural competitions will be encouraged so long as such meets will not interfere with military preparation. This means that the University will not, in case of war, take part in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival scheduled for the latter part of this month, and that there will be no dual meets with Cornell or Yale...
Dean Briggs, in whom the Athletic Committee has placed the power to cancel all the intercollegiate contests in which the University is concerned whenever the occasion seems to require it, stated yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter that no definite action would be taken in this direction until word had been received of the actual declaration of war. There is little doubt but that all sports will be stopped as soon as that declaration is made, however, and Yale and Princeton will take similar action...
...account of the present international crisis and the urgent need for trained officers, we, the undersigned, have agreed to cancel all Monday practices of the four major sport teams, in order that all athletes may have the opportunity of enrolling in the R. O. T. C. and of giving one afternoon a week to the practical drill required. G. E. ABBOT. H. B. CABOT. J. E. P. MORGAN. E. A. TESCHNER...
...move on the part of the four major sport captains to cancel all athletic appointments on Mondays is worthy of highest commendation. Although many may think that this should be expected, the loss of an entire practice day a week means much to the baseball team and crew. It is a great sacrifice on the part of the captains, and an emphatic proof that these leaders of Harvard's athletics realize the need for military training and recognize that duty to this country takes precedence over duty to one's University...