Word: mottes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This year Columbia will make a much greater attempt than ever before to put a strong team into the field for the Mott Haven games. Her crews have always been good ones, and though her 'varsity eight has not met either Harvard or Yale for several years, her freshman crew can alwaysbe relied upon to make a close race for first place...
...last June when the 'varsity crew defeated Cornell and Pennsylvania on the Hudson. In every branch of sport at Columbia the influence of this race has been felt. It has been considered best by W. H. Fearing, Jr., and Trainer Fred Stone, not to put the candidates for the Mott Haven team into training until after the mid-year examinations, which will end on February 8, but they have already singled out the men who, by their records in the past, should show up well in their respective events...
...during term time; but 46 men live in Boston and vicinity, going to and from Cambridge every morning and night. The class contains several good athletes, having five men on the 'varsity football squad last fall. Large numbers of men are also trying for the baseball team, and the Mott Haven team...
...last year's prize winners are still in college and the new material is excellent. At present there are over two hundred and thirty men in training. Of these, thirty-seven were on the team last year and took part in either the Harvard-Yale games or the Mott Haven games in New York. More than half the remainder tried for the team last year and thus have had experience which hard training may develop into good material...
...very gratifying to see the Mott Haven team so well started on the year's training. Track athletics at Harvard have disappointed their supporters long enough. Time was, when the outcome of the annual intercollegiate games was almost a foregone conclusion; when there was no college which could fairly dispute Harvard's claim to preeminence; but of late years the old order has changed. The new one to which it gives place is far from satisfactory. Three times now in succession Harvard has been obliged to yield first place to an old rival, and last spring saw the University...