Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inside workings, of the results, direct and indirect, of the tendencies and even the true aims, of college athletics. Both sides, says a prominent Princeton senior, in an able article published in the initial number of The Student and Statesman, assume a false premise, viz., that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should have a hearing. The inter-collegiate contest is the main point of attack. The opponents of the system assert that college sports and the benefits...
...following team from Princeton, under Frank Dole as trainer, is preparing for the coming inter-collegiate contest: O. Harriman, Jr., '83, pole vault and running high jump, with records of 9 ft. 9 in. and 5 ft. 7 3/4 in. respectively; C. G. Wilson, '83, quarter mile run; F. L. Coolidge, '84, quarter and half mile runs; A. G. Fell, '84, running high and broad jumps; B. W. McIntosh, '84, 100 and 220 yds. dashes and 120 yds. hurdle; H. P. Toler, '85, the phenomenal pole vaulter, who advanced from...
...right. The first game was April 7, with the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Yale was beaten by a score of 12 to 0. The fielding of the nines was about equal, but the Athletics won by heavy batting. On the whole the prospects for a close and exciting contest for the champion ship are excellent. The nines appear to be more evenly matched than ever before From the reports that have reached us up to the present time, it would seem that chances favor Princeton and Brown. Amherst does not expect to win the championship but hopes to make...
...Fessenden, '86; Soren, '83, and Fogg, '85, were entered. This event was introduced at Harvard for the first time last year, when Mr. Soren kicked a height of 8 feet, 4 inches. This does not count as a record, however, as the kicking was made from a mattress. The contest soon narrowed down to Soren and Fessenden. Soren won with a jump of 8 feet, 8 1/2 inches...
...Bachelder withdrew from the contest for the HERALD prize for general excellence, as he wished to spare himself for the double trapeze...