Word: events
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the athletic season is well advanced, everyone would like to see the college band, which was so useful in athletic celebrations, reorganized and ready to serve in the event of baseball or track athletic victories. This band was gotten up last spring, and, after the victories of the baseball nine, took an active part in leading the singing in the student celebrations. As the dual track games with Yale and the first championship baseball game with Princeton take place next Saturday, and as the Harvard teams have good chances to win in both of them, the band...
When everything had been decided but the shot put, the score stood 54 to 50 in Harvard's favor, and it was expected that Pennsylvania would get first and second in that event, giving her the victory by two points. Woodruff, however, owing to a strained knee, was not able to do his best work and E. H. Clarke saved the day by surpassing his own previous performances with a put of 40 feet 4 1-2 inches, giving Harvard second place and tieing the score. Another surprise was in the pole vaulting of A. B. Emmons '98, who outdid...
...field events will also be begun at 2.30 promptly. The pole vault, high jump and hammer throw will be started together. The shot put will follow the hammer event immediately, and the broad jump will follow the high jump...
...will start first, from the Union Boat Club, at 4 o'clock. They will row a mile and a half with a turn. The class race for the first crews will next be rowed at 4.15, over the regular class course, down stream. The four oars will follow this event immediately; they will row one mile down stream, starting just above the Harvard Bridge. Last of all will come the second, or Weld class crews over the regular course...
...hammer and shot Woodruff is the best man, having a record of 138 ft. in the former, and of over 40 ft. in the latter event. McCracken is a good second in both events. Shaw, Clark and Patterson are Harvard's best men in the events...