Word: cross
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last cross country run before the trials on Monday, which will decide the make-up of the University team for the intercollegiate meet, was held over the course on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The men were given the full distance which will be required in the trials, eight laps around the course...
...cross country squad was given light work yesterday. The thirty-two men who came out were instructed in taking the hedges and jumps, and were then sent on a run of four laps, or about three miles, over the regular course...
...cross country run yesterday started from the Locker Building and went up Brattle street around Fresh Pond and back, a distance of about six miles and a half. W. A. Colwell 2G. and W. G. Clerk 1L. led the entire squad as far as Fresh pond, where the men divided into a fast and a slow section. The time made by the first section was forty-four minutes, the slower section finishing a few minutes later. Today the work will be confined to Soldiers Field and the men will be given practice in taking the jumps and hurdles...
Preliminary work for the cross country squad ended Friday, and from now on the men will be put through a more rigorous system of training. The new course on Soldiers Field which has been laid out as nearly as possible on the plan of the intercollegiate cross country course in New York, will be used hereafter in order to accustom the men to the water jumps and other obstacles. The runs will be lengthened from day to day so as to insure a gradual development in the condition...
...reported yesterday afternoon for the cross country run. There are now two squads, one of about sixty and the other of ten men. The length of the runs has been increased, but a slow pace is still maintained...