Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to the fact that no notice of yesterday's meeting was given, only five men shot yesterday afternoon at Watertown. This was the meeting at which the Founders' Cup should have been shot for, but as no notice of the fact had been given it was decided to put it off until the next meeting, which will take place next Thursday afternoon. The two matches on hand were finished, and the rest of the time was devoted to practice. The following are the total scores...
...Manhattan Athletic Club. Many of them are already in training on their own account, and expect to enter the games of the N. A. A. A. A., March 2; Yale games in the middle of March, and the Harvard games, March 30. Columbia has great hopes of winning the cup this year. The events which they expect to take and the men they are depending upon are the tug-of-war team; H. Mapes, '92, in one if not both hurdles; Banks, '89, in the quarter-mile; V. Mapes, '91, in the broad jump; Vosburgh, '90, and Hornbostel...
...fact that the movement is in the hands of Harvard men, and that a cup to be contested for has been offered by them, indicates the desire to raise the standard of athletics in the schools and so raise material for Harvard...
...first Saturday in March. One of the principal objects of the meeting is to make arrangements for an athletic meeting to be held late in the spring. The association is governed by a board of directors consisting of three delegates from each school, together with a Harvard undergraduate. A cup to be contested for has been offered by Harvard men whose purpose is to heighten the standard of athletics at the preparatory schools by means of competitive athletic meetings. It has not yet been decided of how many schools the association will consist, but it is probable that the principal...
...contest for the Founders' Cup, Quinlan and McKay tied on 12 out of 15 birds, and in the shoot-off Quinlan...