Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...convention of the contestants for the Child's cup held at Philadelphia last Saturday, Mr. Raht, '85, representing the navy of Cornell University, secured for Cornell the place in the competition left vacant by Columbia's withdrawal. The next race for the Child's cup will be rowed between Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Cornell, June 25, 1884, on the Schuylkill...
...their places to the candidates for the Mott Haven team. "What!" said one of those thus chagrined, "another team that we must give in to!" This natural feeling of impatience which arises will vanish if the facts of the case are considered. Harvard has held the inter-collegiate cup for four consecutive years, and one more victory by us this spring will make it ours. But since some of our best men graduated in '83, and, moreover, the material in the other colleges is better than usual, every possible effort must be made by us if we are to succeed...
...item is from the Yale News; the italics are our own: D. N. Baxter, '83, Harvard's champion heavyweight sparer, will enter for the amateur championship at New York in February Out-runner Bangs, who won the light-weight wrestling at the winter meetings last year, and also the cup for general wrestling, will try conclusions with the other light-weight wrestlers of the country at the same time...
There is one event included in the contests for the inter-collegiate cup to which we do not think the Athletic Association pays sufficient attention. We refer to the tug-of-war contest, which is passed over as of secondary importance by the officers of the association. As the sports will be exceedingly close this year, and every effort must be made to retain the emblem which we have held for so many years, it seems a good time for training more carefully than heretofore a team for this event. We can of course have no regular trainer for this...
Yale and Princeton are making every effort to win this year and it will be necessary for us to put forth all our energies and enter a large and powerful team if we mean to carry off the cup. To be sure there are one or two events which we won last year and which can be considered, if all goes well, more or less certainties this year, and those who did well last year can be relied on to train faithfully this year again. Yet confidence in winning certain events should not lead us to think we have...