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...Princeton alumni residing in New York and Pennsylvania have offered their college a trophy cup worth $120. The cup will have inscribed on it the names of the best kickers of Princeton since the introduction of the Rugby game, and one name will be added each year. This is expected to prove a great stimulus to the foot-ball players. The offer was unanimously accepted and a vote of thanks was tendered to the donors...
...meeting was held the next year on the Union baseball grounds in Boston. Roxbury Latin won easily, taking seven out of twelve first prizes, including the tug-of-war, and one second prize. Hopkinson's won four firsts and three seconds, and St. Mark's one first and seven seconds. At this meeting, Loring of Hopkinson's made the exceptionally good record of 54 3-4 seconds in the 440 yards dash, and 24 1-4 seconds in the 220 yards dash...
...unusually light, but, with two exceptions, was composed of men who had never before sat in a 'varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority who believed in the new regime, up to a week before the race Yale's success was a foregone conclusion. The race, as one disappointed wearer of the blue expressed it, was a "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...
...committee of four graduates, only one of whom had rowed in recent years, was appointed to take charge of boating matters. Naturally enough they strove to inculcate in the crew those principles with which they were most familiar, viz., those which pertained to the English or Bancroft system of rowing. Despite the fact that the method introduced by Storrow had brought about the over-whelming defeat of the Yale giants in '85, despite the manifest adoption by Yale of the essential feature of this method, and her consequent successes and despite the marked improvement in the speed of the boat...
...events and the probable winner in each event. Besides the events which are given to Harvard there are two or three which are very doubtful and in which we stand a good chance. With the two or three events which are looked upon as surely going to Harvard and one or two of the doubtful ones the cup would undoubtedly go to Harvard, so that the outlook is not quite as bad as the above article would seem to indicate...