Word: intere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual spring tournament of Exeter Academy will occur this year on May 12. A strong attempt was made to get Andover to contest in the various athletic events, and form an inter-scholastic association. For some reason or other the desired result could not be brought about, although it is possible that in the near future track athletics may be as important a fixture between the two academies as the football and baseball matches. There are twenty events in all, onehalf to take place in the morning, the other during the afternoon. Following is a list of the entries...
...Columbia College Chess Club has written to Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale, in regard to forming an Intercollegiate Chess Club. It is proposed that each college send delegates to New York on May 25th. Inasmuch as the inter-collegiate games take place the next day, May 26th, a large number of collegians will undoubtedly be present in New York at that time...
...doings of the cricket eleven than has heretofore been customary. This action has been dictated by the importance which this branch of athletics has recently assumed in the college. It has ceased to be merely a local organization in distinction to the other teams which form parts of inter-collegiate associations, and a decided innovation in this respect will occur when the cricket eleven meets the University of Pennsylvania on Holmes Field next June. If one or two more colleges could be induced to devote some attention to this invigorating sport, there is no reason why a championship series could...
...swing, There are two provisional crews now rowing, one composed of candidates from the School of Arts, the other from the School of Mines. The chief difficulty at first was in dipping the oars at the right angle. The regular crew will probably not be chosen until after the inter-class races, May 12, and the Harlem regatta, May 30, though a provisional crew will be chosen for these events. There are two candidates for the position of coxswain, both from the School of Arts...
...remaining class crews are all in training for the inter-class races to take place May 12. They would have been on the water considerably before this, had not the boat-house been moved to the Mott Haven side, and swung around in the placing. Eighty-eight's crew is less settled that of any of the other classes, no positions having as yet been assigned. The men training are: G. F. Warren, Jr.; H. Parsons, captain; T. S. Perkins; E. P. Callender; F. E. Hopke; J. B. Taylor; A. D. Dodsworth; H. N. Tiemann; F. P. Smith...