Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...even resting. No one is compelled to race for home when the break is made. Therefore, men who have never done much running need not fear to try their modest powers in the weekly hunts. Then, too, it is not the best short distance runner that wins the cup, it is the man with the most endurance and pluck. Thus, there is a chance for all. The more, therefore that go, the more enjoyable is the run. Let a hundred men turn out this afternoon ready to run, "and give the alarm to every Middlesex village and farm," including...
...well contested. Other members of the university know the pleasure derived from belonging to the Mott Haven team, and going to New York to compete in the Inter-collegiate sports. Last spring Yale came very near beating us in the number of first prizes. And although we won the cup, many of our valuable men are no longer in college. The team which represented Yale is about intact; while our own must be recruited, else we can scarcely hope to retain the championship in track athletics. No man is sure whether or not he will compete successfully until...
...Yale News claims that the track athletics of the college never looked so promising as at present, and that the students are confident of having the Mott Haven cup next year...
...should support the association in all its efforts, as every man in college feels called upon on his own account to show an active interest in this branch of athletics. The success earned in track athletics for seven years, and the consciousness that we now possess the Mott Haven cup ought to stimulate the new candidates to their best efforts...
There is one inter-collegiate contest in which Harvard may justly consider herself entitled to the first place again this year, - the contest for the Mott Haven cup. The cup has been won for Harvard so repeatedly that to lose it even once at the close of so long and such creditable work, is out of the question. We publish, however, in another column, a statement of those winners of events last year who remain in Yale and who will probably again enter the contest. The list is truly formidable, to any other university than Harvard. But even Harvard must...