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...possible, before going to England. In fact, Captain Bancroft is in favor of making our race with Oxford conditional on our beating the college eights in America. If Harvard should be so fortunate as to win the races she enters in this country, she would not go to Putney as the "champion American college crew," but as Harvard, backed by an indisputable prestige...
...Middle States for the sake of meeting a rival. New London is the place for these races, not Owasco Lake nor Harlem River. If Columbia and Cornell are determined to row over their favorite courses, the College will certainly decline accepting such conditions, which would seriously interfere with the Putney regatta. It is too early to prophesy what our crew will accomplish, but they ought to do good work, backed up as they are by the moral and material assistance of graduates and undergraduates...
...crew as an expression of their gratitude toward him. Mr. Roberts then rose, and proposed that a letter be sent to Oxford and to Cambridge by the Secretary, unofficially, asking if they would accept a challenge to row an eight-oared race about the first of August on the Putney-to-Mortlake course; he wished first, however, to impress upon Mr. Watson the necessity of his going as coach, for the mistake made in '69 was in not having a proper manager, and he thought Mr. Watson, who was strongly urged to go at that time, should make good...
Oxford-Cambridge. - Cambridge moved to Putney on March 25, Oxford on March 30. The following are the crews as definitely decided upon, although the positions may change...
THIS morning's despatches announce that the Oxford University crew have decided to challenge the Columbia College four, who are expected at Henley, to row a race from Putney to Mortlake for the college championship of the world. If the Columbia four defeat the Oxford crew, then the Cambridge University crew will row the American crew. The organ of the Universities says, if the Columbia College crew who are to row at Henley are the champion four of the Universities of America, there will probably be another international race on the Thames. Both Oxford and Cambridge have agreed to select...