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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...customary, two prizes will be given in each match; the first a silver cup, the second a silver medal. Take the 1.30 car for Watertown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 2/24/1887 | See Source »

...first rowing weights used at Yale consisted of open bags of sand fastened to ropes that passed over pulleys. The crew rowed twenty minutes daily and during the last three or four minutes of each pull the captain stood by with a tin cup and filled up the bags as rapidly as possible to produce the effect of a spurt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/26/1887 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon the candidates for the Mott Haven team assembled in the meeting room of the gymnasium. The unusually large number of men who presented themselves to try for positions was gratifying, but Harvard has especial need of a strong team this year. Yale came very near wresting the cup from us last lear, and judging from the present outlook she will make the contest even closer this spring. The men who won prizes for Yale are almost, without exception, still in college; while we have lost Baker, the winner of the 220 yards dash; and Bradley, Chamberlain, Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

...benefit of our advice. But there are a few cautions it will be wise to heed. In the first place we must bear in mind that Yale has a very strong team and that there are besides, other colleges which confidently expect to win the Mott Haven Cup for themselves. Our own team is weakened, or we must suppose it so until the new candidates prove themselves worthy successors of the old prize winners. The Mott Haven team has never yet followed the example of Harvard's other championship teams and gone to pieces at critical moments. We can never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

...work has been well begun and bids fair to go on with a rush after the recess. There is every need of this, however, with so many vacancies in the nine and crew; and moreover, hard work will be required to make our possession of the Mott Haven cup at all sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1886 | See Source »

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