Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR: The challenge of the Yale freshman class to row an eight-oared two-mile straightaway race with the Harvard freshmen, at New London, next June, date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter, has been received, and is under consideration...
...unprecedented success. There are about six hundred entries including a number of college men for the fourteen events. In the 75-yards dash alone there are one hundred and nine contestants, and among them, Robinson of Yale. Harmar, of Yale, will compete with seventy-four other athletes in the mile run. The entries for the running high jump number forty-seven, and among them is the name of Shearman of Yale. In the half-mile run, Harmar, of Yale, and Dohm, of Princeton, will contest. Princeton will have another representative in Janeway, who has entered for putting the 24-pound...
...winners of the following events will be entitled to go to Europe with the international team of the National Association of Amateur Athletes on their 1889 tour: One hundred yards, 400 yards, half-mile, mile, and four-mile runs; 120-yards hurdle race, putting the shot, pole vaulting, throwing the hammer, running high and broad jumps, and seven-mile walks, also two-mile steeple-chase, and on May 20, a ten mile...
...Lincoln College (Oxford University, England) sports, the strangers' handicap at a quarter of a mile was won from scratch by Mr. F. J. K. Cross in 49 2-5 s., the quickest time on record for an Englishman at the distance. The honor of having eclipsed all others at a quarter of a mile belongs to Wendell Baker, formerly of Harvard, whose record of 47 3-4s. made at Beacon Park, Allston, in 1886, remains unbroken...
...been decided by the managers of the Cornell and University of Pennsylvania crews to hold an annual eight-oared race over a three-mile course on the Thames...