Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Physician Heal Thyself" quotes from a recent editorial in the CRIMSON on the loose manner in which our athletics are reported in the outside press, and comments as follows: "And yet this apostle of accuracy and judgment continues to prattle about the Mott Haven team,' "the Mott Haven Cup,' 'going to Mott Haven,' competing at Mott Haven,' etc., etc." Now in the first place, if the Spirit of the Times knows more about college athletics than the athletes themselves, we stand corrected, or if it feels competent to dictate as to college custom and precedent, we will succumb...
...amusing circumstance in this connection is the fact that the following clipping is taken from the same issue and the same page of the Spirit on which their criticism of us occurs. "Yale's chances for winning the cup at the Mott Haven games this spring have been greatly lessened by the withdrawal of H. S. Brooks and Hamilton from active athletics." The italics are ours...
Tuesday's N. Y. Times has an article on Yale's prospects in the coming contest for the "Mott Haven" cup. The article starts off with the statement that the most enthusiastic Yale man can only figure out second place for his college, and adds, "It seems that though the men who might take a first prize had concluded to let somebody else have a chance. Brooks, '86, the champion college sprinter, positively declines to enter this year. Hamilton, '86, the easy winner of the bicycle race at last year's games, also holds himself severely aloof from the track...
...York papers are speaking of the recent boom in lacrosse, but continue to refer to Princeton as the holder of the Oelrichs cup...
...yacht Mayflower, which is now being built in South Boston to compete for the American cup against the Galatea next season, is already planked in, and will be launched as soon as possible. A number of students have visited the building during the past week...