Word: race
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yards hurdles, 10 hurdles 3.5 feet high (9 yards limit penalty); 150 yards dash (9 yards limit); 440 yards run (30 yards limit); 880 yards run (60 yards limit); one mile run (120 yards limit); 1462/3 yards hurdles, 7 hurdles, 2.5 feet high, (9 yards limit); one mile bicycle race (60 yards limit); running high jump (no limit); running broad jump (2 ft. limit); throwing 16 lb. hammer, 7 ft. run, (24 ft. limit; putting 16 lb. shot (6 ft. limit); pole vault (18 in. limit...
...addition to the handicap events there will be a special half mile, scratch, open to all amateurs, a mile relay race, open to all colleges (Harvard barred), and an interscholastic mile relay championship of the United States...
There will be four scratch events and one handicap, besides which a road race between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania has been arranged. The scratch events will be a one-third mile, one-half mile, one mile and five mile race. The two latter will be paced by fast tandem teams. The handicap will be a two mile race with a limit of 200 yards...
...college scoring the most points in the scratch events will be presented with a silk banner. In every race, gold, silver and bronze medals will be given to first, second and third respectively. These medals will be struck from the H. U. C. A. die, and will equal in value those given at the intercollegiate meet...
Crew training continues with the number of candidates unchanged save for the addition of W. M. Beard of last year's crew and C. Chadwick to the squad. Nothing further has been done for a 'varsity race and no arrangements are as yet possible for the '99 crew. It is likely that the crews will use the harbor soon if it remains as open as it has been. Additions of the trophy flags of the Lawrence-Sheffield Scientific Schools race at Worcester in 1870 have been made to the trophy room. The Hemenway Gymnasium has trophies of a similar race...