Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three athletes who have now severed their connection with the association, who have done a great deal for Harvard in their several branches. Mr. W. Soren has won seven ourt of the twenty-four first prizes which Harvard has won in the four years she has held the cup, has won first prize in every jump on the I. C. A. A. programme: running high, running broad, standing high, standing broad and pole vault, holding the best amateur record in the world for the standing high jump. Mr. G. B. Morison has run in nearly every athletic and gymnastic meeting...
...that Harvard was well represented in the intercollegiate sports would be but a feeble encomium of the magnificent work which our representatives did at New York. Before the sports Columbia thought she had a good chance of winning the cup, as did Yale, and, although we felt that we had the best chance, we never for one moment expected that, to say nothing of winning the cup, we should win as many first prizes, seven, as have ever been won by a single college. and should totally eclipse all our competitors. Our nearest rival, Princeton, won but two first prizes...
...meeting of the Lacrosse Association yesterday, Mr. Williams '85, was elected secretary-treasurer. It was decided to compete for the Oehlrichs Cup, which is at present held by Harvard. The competition will take place in New York about the first of November, and such clubs as Yale, Princeton, New York University and the New York Lacrosse Club will take part...
...Newport Tournament for the Lawn Tennis Championship of the country, in August. In the final singles, Sears easily beat Dwight three out of five sets, with a vantage set, his score being 6-2, 6-0, 9-7. He takes the Horsman trophy, a diamond studded racket and a cup offered by the Casino, and a bronze plaque with a representation of a tennis court done in silver wire...
...face of the globe. We refer to those wretched beings called "croakers." We are all familiar with and heartily sick of the man who said last fall that we were sure to be beaten by Princeton; who said this spring that we had no chance for the Mott Haven cup; that the freshman nine was doomed; that Columbia would leave us by many lengths, etc., etc. Naturally men of this stamp sometimes prophesy correctly, and then the chorus of "I told you sos" with which they greet us is nauseating to the last degree. When they make a mistake, instead...