Word: event
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Wells Cup quarter-mile competition (handicap) and the two-mile run (handicap), both open to the University, will be held next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. First, second and third prizes will be given in each event. Entries close at the Locker Building on Saturday...
...date decided upon. Those present at the meeting were E. J. Wendell '82, J. W. Hallowell '01 and T. Gerrish '01 for Harvard, and Walter Camp, H. S. Brooks, W. M. Fincke '01 and S. L. Coy '01 for Yale. The request of Harvard and Yale that the events be increased to eleven, the Englishmen to choose two from four extra stipulated events, was refused, and accordingly the following will be contested: 100 yards dash, 440 yards run, 880 yards run, one mile run, two mile run, 120 yards hurdles, running high jump, running broad jump, and hammer throw...
...rolled on Wednesday and Thursday, and unless the cold weather continues, will be ready for use Monday. During this week all the track team candidates reporting for work have been sent out on the road in squads, each man being directed to run a distance suited to the event for which he is trying. On Monday it is planned to begin regular practice on the track. The entire squad will then be called out and hard, earnest work will commence...
...second. G. S. Stillman '01 is the leading candidate in the hammer-throw. Last year he was bothered by the turn in the throwing circle and his best throws were fouled by stepping outside the limits. He has been coached by John Flanagan, the world's champion in this event, and has now nearly overcome this difficulty, getting a clean throw of from 140 to 150 feet. F. G. Brown, Jr., '01 and H. P. Olcott '01 of the eleven and G. A. Goss '03 are also working on the hammer. Brown, although new to the work, is developing fast...
...most encouraging event for Harvard was the high jump. The field was the high jump. The field was the strongest of all the events, as A. N. Rice '00, C. M. Rotch '01, I. K. Baxter of Pennsylvania, and S. Jones of New York University were entered. R. P. Kernan '03 had a handicap of 5 inches, and by making an actual jump of 6 ft. 1-4 in., won the event. Jones and Baxter also made the same actual jump, and took second and third places respectively...