Word: contests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...know when the next contest between Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge will take place, but I think the challenge or invitation should come from alternate countries and not necessarily from a defeated team. In may opinion it would be a pity to hold these sports annually, and I believe this view is supported by the athletes of the universities concerned. If the sports were held at short intervals there would be a tendency for the interest to wane, there would also be a difficulty regarding university arrangements, and it might not always be easy to meet the expenses...
...stamina as those in England, who take part in the Oxford-Cambridge races. I certainly hope they have as much, but that is not the point. What I contend is that our boys are called upon to bear, not merely a strain equal to that of the Oxford-Cambridge contest, and of the preparation for it, but a greater one. Greater because, as I have previously pointed out, of the difference in weather conditions during the contest, and during the period of preparation for it, because of the added worry of the final examinations, and further because our race...
...shown that any man whose vital organs were sound and who had properly and carefully trained, has ever been injured in a 'Varsity race, either in this country or in England. A certain amount of exhaustion is a necessary result of any severe physical contest where the participants are using their nervous and muscular energy to the highest degree. It takes some little time to regain the energy thus expended;--in rowing, perhaps longer than in most other sports--but if the recovery is complete, and I say again there is nothing to show that...
...miles was the distance adopted by Harvard and Yale principally because that was the distance rowed by Oxford and Cambridge; but I wish to point out that the Oxford-Cambridge race is rowed in March in cold weather, while our race comes at end of June, so that the contest and the final period of preparation come in hot weather, and while the men are having their final examinations, which makes the strain much more severe...
...increased during the remainder of the race. Gallagher, Hall and Pownall moved well up to the front, and Clark changed his position from ninth to seventh. In the last two miles the positions of the first three men remained unchanged. At the finish, with the exception of an exciting contest for third, fourth and fifth places, the men were well separated. Mills covered the course in 30 minutes and 16 seconds, which was very creditable time, as the roads were wet and muddy...