Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Godkin. Mr. C. R. Sanger responded for the committee. Mr. G. P. Upham was called upon to respond for the foot-ball eleven, and Mr. F. A. Barton for the base-ball nine. Mr. Brandegee, in his response for the crew, gave a brief description of the race last summer at Owasco Lake, and stated some facts regarding the circumstances of the race and time of the crews which considerably lessened the significance of Cornell's victory. Mr. C. Sprague was called upon to respond for the Advocate; Mr. Burdett, for the Crimson; and Mr. Hammond, for the Lampoon...
...Metropolitan Association Regatta of Friday, July 4, but also in the N. A. A. O. regatta of a few days later; that Cornell is almost certain to be a competitor in both events on the latter occasion; that Princeton has nine men in training for the same four-oared race; that the proposed prize for class sixes will not be offered before next year; that Newark will probably be chosen as the scene of the regatta; that the college races will probably be a mile and a half straightaway, like all the other races...
Within the last fortnight, also, I have learned with regret that the Harvard and Columbia Freshmen have agreed to row an eight-oared three-mile race "at New London," though the date thereof has not yet been decided upon, and that the challenge for this was sent before the Crimson published my letter recommending that the proposed Freshman race between Harvard and Cornell be appointed for some other locality. If it is too late now to persuade the Freshmen to keep away from the Thames course at a time when their presence there may disturb the very delicately balanced arrangements...
...membership of this Freshman in the University crew of Columbia, which is to compete in the races of the N. A. A. O., of course supplies a reason why the Freshman race between the two colleges could not be arranged as the opening event in the same day's sports. In future years, however, I hope similar races may be so arranged, unless the establishment of a prize for class sixes shall attract the competition of all ambitious Freshman crews, and so render unnecessary the arrangement of special Freshman races. According to a letter of its secretary, dated January...
Anyhow, I am bound by my thirteen years' personal experience of the actual and possible dangers, discomforts, and disasters connected with attempts at "mixing things" in intercollegiate boat-race management, to plead as eloquently as I can against the rowing of any such race on the Thames during the seven days which precede June 30, 1879. Without pretending to assert that the rowing of it there at that time would necessarily and inevitably confuse and upset the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race of a few days later, I do insist most vigorously that it would have a strong tendency...