Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...procession." Yale, vulgarly speaking, carried the bucket. Harvard jumped into the lead the moment her oars struck the water, and though averaging about thirty-four strokes to the minute after the first spurt, to her opponent's thirty-seven, increased her lead at every stroke. On the last mile there were twenty-five boat lengths between the two crews. Harvard's rowing was remarked upon, though little understood, by all who saw the race. So little effort was apparent in her style, that the uninitiated were at a loss to account for the speed of her boat. While...
...told, endeavored to "unlearn the radically wrong principles" of the three previous years. The endeavor was pre-eminently successful, and what was the result? A crushing defeat, such as had never been seen upon the Thames. At one time in the race there was almost half a mile between the two crews. Yale, naturally enough, retained the principles, the efficacy of which she had tested, and gave even a better exhibition of rowing than the Harvard crew...
DEAR SIR: The Yale freshman class hereby challenge the Columbia freshmen to a two-mile straightaway race, to be rowed at New London next June, the date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter. Yours respectfully...
...will meet with the approval of all interested in intercollegiate athletics. The attempt to arrange a road race with Yale proved unsuccessful, but we see no reason why the plan now proposed should not be heartily entered into. Intercollegiate bicycling has heretofore been confined to the two-mile race at Mott Haven, and so has held a comparatively unimportant place. Bicycling as a sport deserves a much more prominent place in college athletics because of the skill it requires and the number of men interested in it. The plan proposed will go far towards raising its standing. The Bicycle Club...
...number of entries in each event is as follows: 75 yards run, 121; 250 yards run, 77; 440 yards run, 67; 880 yards run, 81; 250 yards hurdle race, 29; two-mile run, 61; one-mile walk, 43; 11/2 mile bicycle race, 50; 3/4 mile walk, 65; 1-4 mile run, 87; and tug-of-war, 9 teams. Total number...