Word: prizeman
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...fifteen, the regular course of instruction in athletics was begun, which fitted the youth to participate in the great games, "field meetings" we would call them now, held every year at Athens. Higher honors were conferred on the victors in these games than fall to the lucky prizeman at Oxford or Cambridge...