Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing on a course rendered doubly difficult by recent rains the Crimson golf team rolled up a total of 39 points in the first half of the telegraphic match with the University of Oregon yesterday...
...Oregon '31, and state amateur champion was the originator of the plan to promote intercollegiate golf through the interest aroused by such an experiment as playing a golf match by telegraph. His idea is for Harvard to chose a course which corresponds as nearly as possible to the features of the Eugene. Oregon, Country Club. The Eugene Course measures 6425 yards long, is par 72, has very few bunkers, and has its second nine laid out through trees. By chance the Belmont Springs Course, where the Harvard team plays regularly is greatly similar to this, with the exception that...
...announcement that Harvard is to play Oregon University in a golf match in which the two teams will be playing three thousand miles apart makes the average person stop a minute and wonder where the desire for novelty in America will stop. There have been previous invasions of college sports by this seemingly dominant American characteristic but-never before has it gone to such an extreme...
...match which is being played this afternoon have been worked out to a nicety and the results will be telegraphed across the continent from one institution to the other in order to determine the winner. If this experiment proves successful there might seem to be no reason why the golf team should ever-leave Cambridge to engage an opponent, except that, all the competitive spirit of the contest would be lost...
...golf this may be a minor consideration but for a person who enjoys the competitive element in any sport there is small inducement to make a trip to Belmont Spring to watch the Harvard team play against...