Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mott Haven cup cost $300. This amount was collected by subscriptions from the various colleges - Harvard and Columbia giving the largest amount. Yale gave nothing towards its purchase...
...dropped from the upper trapeze, Bachelder holding him by his feet, and snapping him up several times, so that he caught him by his hands. The applause that followed the event was prolonged until the performers were called out. After this event Mr. Lowell brought out the Mott Haven cup, and exhibited it to the audience...
...This cup has been awarded for the past seven years to the college winning the most events at the inter-collegiate meetings. In '76 it was won by Princeton, in '77, '78 and '79 by Columbia and in '80, '81 and '82 by Harvard. The winners of the meeting in 1882 were Goodwin, '84, one-half and one-quarter mile runs; Morison, mile run; Norton, 2-mile bicycle race, and Soren, running high jump and pole leaping. Mr. Lowell stated that Yale and Columbia were making great efforts to win the cup this year, but that the Harvard association were...
...cup offered for general excellence is on exhibition in Bartlett's window...
...directors of the Columbia College Boat Club have planned an extremely active campaign for 1883, their programme including four-oared races for the Childs cup, at Philadelphia, and the inter-collegiate championship at Lake George; also eight-oared matches with Harvard at Boston and New London, as well as competition in the regattas of the Harlem, Passaic River and National Associations. To provide the funds to carry out this programme, the club gave athletic meetings at Madison square on Friday and Saturday evenings. The entries numbered 234, including Myers, Derickson and a number of athletes from Yale, Princeton...