Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mott Haven team in the games of Saturday last. In these days of always providing for number one at any cost, actions like that shown in the final heat in the 100-yards dash, stand in deserved prominence. Harvard's victory of the inter-collegiate cup depended on this race, and therefore we should all be doubly gratified to the man who gave up his own chances of success to make the victory of his college secure...
...Stewart, '87, kindly furnished the drawing for the cut of the Mott Haven cup in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...Mott Haven team leaves for New York. For six successive years Harvard's representatives have won the cup, emblematic of the championship in inter collegiate track athletics. If we win this year the cup will be the permanent property of Harvard because it will then be impossible for any other college to win it an equal number of times. Harvard's team this year is of unusual strength; so is that of Yale. All of our men who won prizes in New York last year, except Fogg, '85, are still in the team. Besides this there are several...
...noticed in your issue of the 25th that the date of the race for the single scull "Challenge Cup," presented last year by Messrs. Thayer and Carroll, '85, is announced for some day between June 10th and 15th. In this race there is also a cup offered by the Boat Club for men who have never rowed a single scull race in college. The race thus offers inducements for those who have but little experience in single sculling. Indeed, in the present pititiable condition of single sculling, the merest tyro need have no hesitation in entering...
Single scull racing used, not so very long ago, to be an event of considerable general interest here. To hold the championship of the colleges was considered no inconsiderable distinction; an inter-collegiate cup far more prized than a first at Mott Haven...