Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...editor of the Sporting Column having offered a prize for the bicycle race, another gentleman connected with the Crimson offers a gold medal to the winner of the hundred yards' dash, conditional on his equalling or beating 10 1/2 seconds...
Hundred yard dash...
...English University," afford any amount of information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate...
Graduates' hundred-yard dash, won by College of the City of New York; time...
...results of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association's sports are given in another column. Harvard was represented in but one contest, - the one-hundred-yard dash. Even when held at a more convenient time and place, these contests have never been sufficiently attractive to secure a fair representation of Harvard students either as contestants or spectators; and, unless something can be done in future to secure a larger representation from this College, it would be quite as well for us to withdraw entirely from the Association...