Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reasonable to suppose that, if the Harvard cross-country team had met Yale with an equality of skilled professional coaching, the first six finishers in that race would have been all Yale men? Is it not humiliating that in the meet with Technology, which most of our men entered under the handicap of physical disability, the paid coach of their opponents, after seeing his team to an over-whelming victory, gave, out of the kindness of his heart, counsel as to the well-being of the Harvard team, which he evidently pitied as being sheep without a shepherd...
...mile cross-country run is no slight task and the supervision of a competent trainer is necessary not only to help the team to win, but also to protect the men from the physical risk of zeal untempered by knowledge. Rumor says that other teams than the cross-country have also been left uncared for, but to none of them are the dangers of bodily harm arising from such neglect more imminent...
Invitations to enter relay teams have been sent out to Amherst, Bates, Boston College, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Holy Cross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Maine, University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale, Chicago Athletic Association, Irish-American Athletic Association, and New York Athletic Association...
During the past month the University cross-country team has been badly defeated in three races, in consequence of which the opinion has already been expressed, even in a Harvard publication, that the team is not properly qualified to represent Harvard, and should therefore no longer be allowed to enter intercollegiate competitions. This is the unsportsmanlike spirit with which basketball, after a slow decline, was last year buried by action of the Athletic Committee. It is the spirit which, if persisted in, will kill any sport, no matter how flourishing it may once have been...
This hostile attitude is unjustified in the case of cross-country, both because the sport is in itself most excellent, and because it serves as a training school for the distance runners who represent one-sixth of the strength of one of our four major teams. A glance at the results of the intercollegiate cross-country runs and long distance events of the last seven years, compared in another column, will show what the development of a strong cross-country team has done for Cornell. We believe that we are justified in assuming that the same advantages...