Word: contests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...kindly given permission to all who desire to train, to make use of the track at the Park at any time they may wish to do so; and though the distance of the grounds from Cambridge is somewhat inconvenient, we sincerely hope that those who intend to enter the contest will not omit training on this account; for after all it is only a walk of twenty minutes...
...proposed to hold the spring meeting of the Princeton Athletic Association some time in April, probably the 28th. About the 5th, Columbia College will be invited to send representatives to an athletic contest, at which Princeton will be represented by the prizemen in the spring games...
...citizens be appointed to manage the whole boat-race. We object to his apparently firm conviction that this race is to be henceforth and forever rowed at Springfield; and we do not believe with him that the fact that anything is done or left undone in the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge is in itself sufficient reason that the same thing be done or left undone in the contest between Yale and Harvard. The article, however, contains good and pertinent ideas, and we commend it to the attention of the Executive Committee...
...heavy-weight wrestling was decided last Saturday, by a contest between Messrs. Kessler, '78, and Simmons, '80, Mr. Wetherbee having withdrawn. There were two bouts, each being decided in favor of Mr. Kessler, who accordingly received the cup. The judges were Messrs. Butler and Leeds, '77, and Thayer...
...will be found below, and, as can be seen from it, their list of events is very nearly the same as that of our own spring and autumn meetings. It seems to us that it would be an excellent thing for the winners, at all events, of our spring contest (which we understand will take place about May 12), to enter themselves for the different sports of the New York Club. For Harvard men have not won any very great laurels at the Saratoga meetings, and it would be well for them to have as much practice as possible before...