Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia athletic teams have given assurances that they will compete at the open indoor athletic meeting of the B. A. A. on Feb. 5. Princeton is now the only large eastern college that will not be able to compete...
...Peters, a new man, showed up well in the hurdles, and J. W. Falls won several of the paper chases. He will probably train for the long distance events in the intercollegiate games. Charles T. Dudley, the halfback who made the touchdown against Princeton, is a fast man on the track. The team as a whole will be called out after the Junior Promenade, and among other men who will train are Graff, Fischer and Byers in the sprints; Lewis, Buckingham, Speer, Palmer and W. Johnson, in long distance runs; C. D. Cheney and Weston in the broad jump; Buscom...
Within recent years the smaller eastern colleges, such as Brown, Bowdoin, Amherst, Dartmouth, Lehigh, Wesleyan, Lafayette, Trinity and Rutgers, have made remarkable showings in their athletic contests with Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Harvard. Perhaps an explanation of their uniform success can be found in the fact that all of these colleges, without an exception, require physical training of their students, exempting, however, from the gymnasium work all men on the athletic squads. The result is that many men, who would not otherwise think of doing so, come out for the various teams to escape the less exciting gymnasium exercise...
...preliminary work. The season's work will be begun with the nucleus of a very strong team, as Lauder, Fultz, Sedgwick, Perkins. Gammons, Boyd, and Cook, of last year's nine are still eligible. The schedule is nearly complete and is to contain games with Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Tenney, the old Brown player, now on the Boston league team, will do the coaching...
...Princeton required physical exercise from 1869 to within a few years, when the plan was abandoned on account of the meagre accommodations of the gymnasium...