Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half-mile is another doubtful race. Harvard has several good halfmile men, but they have not shown up very well hitherto at the games. Holton, T. S., Bradner, '89, and Harmer, '90, are our best...
...usually accompanies the crew with another coach and the substitutes. The crew has rowed so little thus far that the work is very rough and no estimate of their rowing ought to be made as yet. There are but two men in the boat who have rowed a four mile race. Mr. Pebble, 91, is the coxswain...
...challenge has been received by the Columbia freshmen from the Yale freshmen to row them a two mile race on the Thames at New London within a week of the Yale-Harvard 'Varsity race. The Columbia men favor such a proposition, but acting on the advice of the boat club, they will probably refuse the challenge...
...shortly. The work of rolling and raking the track began yesterday. As it was in no condition for use, Mr. Lathrop improvised a triangular track in front of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. On this Messrs. Wright, L. S.; Rublee, '90; Brackett, '91; Howe, '91, and Paine, '91, walked a mile, making it in eight minutes, twenty seconds. The walk was merely for practice, no attempe being made to make fast time. Beside the gymnasium, hurdles were set up, and the candidates for the hurdle race practised here...
...Cross, an amateur runner of Oxford, England, has succeeded in breaking the half-mile record, made by Myers, the American, which has stood for six years. His time...