Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appearance 'of the other contestants in the shot and pole vault shows a lack of interest which is very reprehensible, and augurs ill for our success in the struggle for the cup next spring. Any failure of the candidates to improve every opportunity for practice is likely to render futile the efforts of the H. A. A. for success next spring. It is to be hoped that such delinquency may not happen again...
Part of the decorations at the armory in New Haven, where the Yale junior promenade was held, consisted of two eight-oared shells. The Mott Haven cup was also present...
...Perhaps all are not aware that the old intercollegiate association is finally and permanently broken up. To the recent call for a convention, not a single college responded. Cornell's record in the association has been a brilliant one and she comes out of it in possession of the cup. But however deserving we have been of praise, however plucky and successful our crews have been, we have certainly not received just recognition of it since the palmy days when Yale and Harvard withdrew from the association with the excuse that "they had no show where Cornell rowed, and they...
...Harvard is waiting for the pitcher to come all developed. Yale is bringing out the raw material and developing it. In the Mott Haven team, Yale has been bringing out the strength of the freshman class and has already some good athletes who promise to help bring the cup if Harvard does not arise and work. Nothing comes without work, so either the various teams must commence to practice or the good resolutions of the new year will come to naught...
Above all, let every man work hard. Skill is quite as important as strength and agility. It is not enough simply to contest on Saturday. Every one must take regular, faithful practice, under Mr. Lathrop's direction. We have a working chance of winning back the cup. Shall we? will we do it? Upon every one of us rests some share of the responsibility. Let no one shirk his duty...