Word: cross
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual intercollegiate cross-country run will be held on Travers Island this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Besides Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia and Princeton have entered teams. Cornell won the meet last year, and Yale the year before...
Travers Island, where the run is to be held today, is the property of the New York Athletic Club, and the course, which is six miles in length, is laid out after the fashion of the English cross-country courses. The English course does away with the great number of jumps necessitated by such a course as that at Morris Park where the meet was held last year...
...Holy Cross vs. Tufts, at Boston...
...cross-country team will leave for New York today at 1 o'clock to take part in the intercollegiate run to be held at Travers Island tomorrow at 3.30 o'clock. While in New York the team will stay at the Murray Hill Hotel and will return to Cambridge immediately after the run. The following six men will compose the team: W. A. Colwell 3G., A. King 1L., H. H. Rowland '06, S. Whittaker 2L., S. Curtis '05, W. A. Howard '07. Trainer Graham will accompany...
Ever since intercollegiate runs have been held they have been over the Morris Park course which is essentially a steeple chase course. This year, however, the committee in charge decided to hold the run on the Travers Island course which is laid out like the regular English cross-country courses and which is six miles in length. The main difference between the courses is that on the Morris Park course there are more than forty jumps, while Travers Island furnishes scarcely half a dozen...