Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...candidates for the University Crew row every afternoon at four and a half, and they are at present being coached in pair-oars by Mr. Loring, '69. The men run four miles three evenings in the week, but the captain expects them soon to begin to run to Fresh Pond, around the pond, and back to the Square, - a distance of six miles. A boat with stationary seats is being prepared for the crew, and the captain has ready now some uniforms, consisting of shirts, drawers, and stockings, all of crimson, that will be serviceable in cold weather. He intends...
BETWEEN twenty and thirty Freshmen have come forward as candidates for their class crew, and it is probable that before spring six excellent men will be found among this number. The candidates run a half-mile three times a week, and pull a hundred strokes at the weights; both the running distance and the number of strokes will soon be increased, The class has subscribed about $400 to meet the expenses of their crew, and as the most rigid economy is necessary in spending this money, it would be well for the treasurer of the class boat-club to publish...
...Half-Mile...
...mile walk and in the mile run we made the best time; In everything else Yale surpassed us. Their record may be summed up as follows: The 100-yard dash was made by Yale in 10 1/2 seconds, Wesleyan, 10 3/4; the mile walk in 8. 13, 9.4; the half-mile race in 2.10, 2.27; the three-mile run in 18.39 by Yale; the 120-yard hurdle-race in 19 1/4 seconds, 19 1/4; the 440-yard dash in 58 seconds by Yale; the one-mile run in 5. 20 by Yale; the two-mile run in 12.1 by Wesleyan...
...preceding one. Thus the time of the winning four-oared crew in the fall of '74 was 16 min. 36 3/4 sec., in the spring of '75, 14 min. 59 1/2 sec., and this fall 15 min. 8 1/2 sec., - showing a difference of nearly a minute and a half between the time of the first and last race. Of the four clubs all but one has furnished a winning second crew; Holworthy taking the first race, Weld the second, and Holyoke the third...