Word: falle
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fletcher, '87, has returned to Cambridge but will not play football this fall, owing to injuries received a year...
...Boston (of which road I do not know the name) nearly as good as any track. Part of this lack of interest doubtless is due to the few bicycle races that are held here. It there were given a number of open and handicap road and track races, this fall and next spring, who can doubt but that Harvard could soon show as fast riders as any other college...
...team was to have played with Wesleyan on Thursday, but rain prevented. A series of games is now being arranged with various teams in this vicinity. The game with Harvard this fall will be played in New Haven and the great Yale-Princeton game will probably be played in New York at the polo grounds unless the Princeton faculty interfere as they did last year. In that case Princeton will doubtless make a strong effort to have the game played on their grounds, but this Yale will never consent to do, as she played there last year only on condition...
...track athletes are making active preparations for the fall races, which take place in about three weeks. Among the events, it is expected that there will be a half-mile race open to all amateurs in the country. Sherrill, '89, who is now the champion 100-yards runner of the country, will run in these races, as will also Hinckley, '88, who has a record of a quarter-mile in 51 3-4 seconds; Bradner, who is able to run within a fraction of a second of the record in the half-mile run has retired from the track permanently...
...those who by reason of their superior pluck and endurance manage to come in ahead of their fellows. Now that the college is beginning to swing into its regulated routine of work, it is time for those who have charge of the matter to organize runs for the fall term, and we hope that the freshmen will co-operate with the upper class-men in sustaining a branch of athletics from which so much good is derived...