Word: race
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nothing definite has yet been decided about the challenge of Leland Stanford University to have a relay race in Chicago on April...
From the whole number of candidates four eights will be selected, one representing each class, and these crews will row in a second race on the day of the class races. After these eights have been picked (with an allowance of one or two men as substitutes on each crew) the remaining candidates are to be formed into four oared crews. Every one who rows regularly will be kept on either the eights or fours, so that no one need fear being dropped. After the class races two eights, junior and intermediate, are to be formed to enter...
...events in the handicap games will be, 100 yds. dash, 600 yds. and one mile run, 120 yds. high hurdle race, aunning broad jump and throwing the discus...
...hoped that by having the race at Newport on the date fixod, that more boats of both clubs will be able to enter than if the race were held at New London. The interest in yachting will be greatly increased in case of a renewal of yachting relations with Yale, for only by a yearly regatta is the club brought together...
...this sport at Yale. The proposition to hold the regatta at Newport instead of at New London as heretofore is one which will make the conditions more acceptable to Harvard than they otherwise would be, and practically just as much so to Yale; but as the University Boat Race will not be held at New London this year and as there are comparatively few boats on Long Island Sound owned by Harvard men, the Sound is not the most convenient place for the races from a Harvard point of view. It is evident therefore that, to win the cup which...