Word: events
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would be difficult, however, to fancy a meeting more interesting and exciting as an athletic contest than the one of yesterday. The score was on a perpetual see-saw until the last event was finished at 7 o'clock, and when it is remembered that a difference of one first place would have tied the score, the extreme closeness of the games can be comprehended. To be sure, Yale at the end of the fourth event had 23 points while Harvard had 9 only. Yet the mile run and the mile walk evened the score and from then till...
...most exciting event of the afternoon was the two mile bicycle race. In all the heats the men were closely bunched and the Harvard men especially exhibited excellent head-work in their riding. In the first heat. when the pistol was fired, all the men appeared to be afraid to set a good pace and as a result the first two laps were finished in very slow time. Allen and Brewster of Yale then started off mere rapidly, closely followed by Davis and Elliott of Harvard and in the sixth lap Davis spurted and took the lead. He was unable...
...points. R. H. Davis L. S., who was scratch in the two mile bicycle race, was too heavily handicapped, and finished sixth. C. G. Hubbell '93, had 30 yards in the half mile run and finished fourth. In the mile walk A. L. Endicott '94, had 10 seconds. The event was won by C. W. Otley of Princeton, (10 seconds), with J. A. Borcherling of Princeton, (5 seconds) second, and A. L. Endicott '94, third. In the mile run, C. A. Blake '93, (60 yards), had 30 yards over Woodbridge of Princeton and won the event...
...place of the game to be played between Harvard and Princeton, in the event of a tie, will be decided after the game on May 30th, the choice to be between Boston and New York...
Yale's record in the two-mile bicycle bicycle race is 6 min. 4 4-5 sec. This has been beaten by all four men who will represent Harvard, and the eight points in this event ought also to come to Harvard...