Word: pace
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tomorrow afternoon at 4.15 o'clock candidates for the team will meet at the Locker Building and run at an easy pace over the course chosen for the team trials on Friday. This course has not yet been announced, but it will probably be the one leading around Fresh Pond...
...previous cross country team, there is ample opportunity to new material. The squad is much smaller than in former years, and every one not engaged in some other branch of athletics is urged to come out. Two squads will be formed, one fast and the other slow. The pace of the slow squad will be kept down to suit beginners, so that no one need fear of lacking sufficient ability. These runs are of inestimable advantage to men who intend to run the half, the mile and the two mile in the spring. Trials will be held for the team...
...practice runs under the leadership of A. King 2L. The course was about two miles up the Speedway along the Cambridge bank of the river, and back to the Locker building by the way of Mt. Auburn Street. As this was the first run of the season the pace was very slow, and the men were allowed to run almost as they pleased...
...bridge the Freshmen led by about a length. The Sophomores and Seniors were second with the Juniors a length in the rear. About a half-mile from the finish the Juniors made a spurt and nearly over took the Sophomores. The Seniors were unable to keep up the pace and dropped half a length behind. From here the relative positions of the crews remained the same. Just before the finish Amberg, at 7 on the Freshman boat, also broke his oar, but the crew was so near the line that the accident made no apparent difference...
...University crew held a time row yesterday afternoon over the mile and seven-eighths course. The time, 9 minutes and 30 seconds, was good. From Harvard Bridge, the end of the first mile, the Freshman crew, which had been waiting for the University boat, started at a racing pace a length in the lead. The Freshman began with a high stroke of over 40, and gained three-quarters of length on the University boat. During the last quarter of a mile, however, the University eight made a spurt, and in the final stretch drew up rapidly on its opponents...