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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Competition between the English and American collegians dates back to the nineteenth century. The first set of games was held in London in 1899. Then, a team headed by J. T. Roche '99 of Harvard and T. R. Fisher '99 of Yale lost to Oxford and Cambridge...
...combined track and field team of Oxford and Cambridge will meet the combined Harvard-Yale team in the Stadium, on the afternoon of July 13 and while it is impossible to gauge the strength of the English team with complete accuracy, it seems likely that the American collegians will repeat their 1925 victory. Oxford and Cambridge won the 1927 meet in England...
...English collegians are to sail for Montreal on Friday, and they will meet a picked team in the Canadian metropolis on July 6, before entering the United States for its meet in the Stadium The Oxford-Cambridge team, as was the case in 1925 also will meet a combined team of Princeton and Cornell athletes on teh Saturday following the Harvard-Yale engagement...
Harvard- Yale, team, which is to are included in the personnel of the English team. They are Bayes Norton, captain of the Yale team in 1926 Caleb F. Gates formerly of Princeton and E. R. McGill formerly of University of Florida Norton will compete in both sprints, and Gates in the shot-put, and McGill in the pole vault...
Almost four months will have elapsed between that March meet and the international meet when the English athletes compete in the Stadium, and Coach E. L. Farrell of Harvard and George Connors of Yale may well calculate that the Englishmen will improve those marks...