Word: cross
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...success of the Harvard cross-country team in the season just closed has prompted an inquiry into the conditions under which this sport is carried on. Accordingly the CRIMSON gives this morning a brief history of cross-country running here...
...believe that there is considerable dissatisfaction among those who interest themselves in athletics in regard to the conditions under which "H's" are distributed in at least one branch of sport. That is cross-country running. In order to win an "H" under the present system one must lead a field of about seventy men in the intercollegiate run, and one must also have the good fortune to be on the winning team. If the framers of this strange device have any sense of humor they must have smiled at their work. It certainly does not cheapen...
Certainly cross-country running is a sufficiently important branch of track to be made a "legitimate" field in which to win one's letter. It is not a trivial sport. With the possible exception of rowing, there is no exercise which makes such a demand upon the grit and stamina of the athlete, and which leaves him in such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins...
...days ago the CRIMSON called attention to the fact that substitutes on the University football squad who did not play in the Yale game deserved some in signia as a reward. The communication in another column calls attention to a condition in the award of cross-country insignia, which, on its face, is similar, but which, in reality, is not the same. Men who represent Harvard in cross-country runs receive the "H.A.A.," just as men entered in the Yale and intercollegiate track meets. Each one has a chance to win the track "H" by finishing first, but, what...
Apparently it was with this last point in view that the present rules governing the award of cross-country insignia were drafted. Seeing that a place on the cross-country team insures the distinction of an "H.A.A.," and since cross-country men apparently have a better chance than any others to win the "H" in the mile and two-mile runs, we believe that the change suggested is hardly justified by the conditions...