Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last we are on the tide wave of advance, and hope to send a team to Mott Haven. On looking over the records, it will be found that Williams won first prizes in the one hundred yards dash and quarter-mile run, in 1876, the first year of the annual meetings. Now, why has she so ignominiously failed to hold her own since that day? Simply through a lamentable lack of enthusiasm. When we think that other colleges of our size are training a dozen or twenty men, we ought to feel rather "tired." In fact, the reputation we have...
There are several promising candidates for the mile run. Fair time for the season has already been made...
...trifle faster. As the boats came down the river the 'varsity gradually closed up the gap between them and '88, - at the Crescent Boat House there were but three lengths between them, and at the sluice way, scarcely two. Just below this point, at about three quarters of a mile from the finish, the '86 crew joined in the race, - starting just ahead of the 'varsity. Down the last half mile, the three boats came, almost together, '88 leading by about a length. At about two hundred yards from the finish the 'varsity spurted, and passing both its competitors crossed...
...Columbia, Harvard, and Yale with the probabilities of their finishing in that order, while Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania will also send strong teams. The men who will represent Columbia are as follows: 100 and 220 yards, Mapes, Phillips and Denickson; 440 yards, Denickson, Stackpoole, and Phillips; half-mile run, Ware, Tyler, Cohen, Gardiner, and G. Stephens; one-mile run, Ware, Brandt, Haukesworth, A. C. Smith, Wilson and Dempsey; one-mile walk, Ware and Warren; broad jump, Mapes, Boaz and Wayland; high jump, Richards and Aldridge; 120 yards hurdle, Bostwick and Safford; pole vault, Stephens; hammer and shot, Dresser...
...team which will represent Princeton at the Inter-Collegiate games, has been chosen as follows: Throwing the hammer, Adams, Halsey: putting the shot, Cook; mile walk, Thompson; mile run, Carter, Hamilton; half mile run, Carter and Griffith; quarter mile run, Griffith, Guthrie, Hodge, Fenton; pole vaulting, H. Hodge, Toler; tug-of-war, Jamison, McClellan, Calhoun, Cowan. (anchor...