Word: events
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biennial games which take place today at 2.30 should be unusually interesting, judging from the number of prominent athletes who have entered. In the high hurdles there should be a race well worth seeing with such men entered as Chase the American champion, and Curtis who won this event at the Olympic games. The low hurdle race should also prove exciting with such performers as Bremer, Chase, and Perkins, the Yale crack. This race has been changed from the usual 220 yards to 146 2-3, and the 220 yards flat to one of 150, so that it will...
...each event there will be three prizes which will consist of handsome silver mugs. The first prizes will be about eight inches high and correspondingly large round. These prizes will be the best which have ever been given by the H. A. A. Besides the track officials a large number of ushers have been appointed. J. C. Fairchild is head-usher, and the others are: D. P. Rogers, A. B. Holmes, H. Dibblee, A. F. Street, F. L. Huidekoper, M. E. Stone, Jr., A. H. Ladd, R. H. Hallowell, D. Cheever, J. M. Thayer, J. W. Edson, H. Blanchard...
...part were first-class and most of them did not show up very well. Cochrane did the best work, winning the place and drop kicking, while Wrightington and Davis won the punting and passing respectively. The prizes will probably be cups and only one will be given in each event...
...first events were the punting and passing. In the punting the men were judged for form, accuracy and distance, and in this Wrightington and Dunlop were easily the best, with Wrightington first. The quarterback passing was won by Davis, the others being neither as quick nor as sure as he; Davis, however, has had the advantage of playing with the centre rush all through the season while the others were used to different men. In the drop kicking the ball was passed back from the fifteen, twenty and twenty-five yard lines, every man having three trials at each distance...
...time of the last presidential election over a thousand undergraduates marched in a political parade, and most of them did it purely for the fun of the thing and not because they had any real hearty interest in the event. Now, on this much more important occasion, when every individual should feel an active interest in the celebration both as a student of the University and a citizen of Cambridge, the enthusiasm should be far greater...