Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ingratitude. We could only hope that some new and unexpected material would show itself, or still better, that the old crew might relent. New material did come forward, much of it very good; but there was a sad lack of weight. On the whole, the outlook for the '79 race was anything bur cheerful. Consequently last week, when the glad tidings were spread around that four of last year's men had gone into training, and that some eight hundred pounds avoirdupois had been added to the crew, there was a general sigh of relief. To these four...
...yards dash (handicap), I-mile walk (for those who have never beaten 7 minutes), 1/4-mile run (handicap), I-mile walk (handicap), limited, I-mile run (handicap), limited, tug-of-war (teams of four each), regimental tug-of-war between company teams from the 7th and 22d Regiments, and bicycle race, 2 miles...
...with your invitation to say something about the newly projected intercollegiate regatta under the auspices of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen; for my desire that this deserving experiment should be successfully carried through at Newark or Saratoga is second only to my desire that the annual University boat-race between the two old Colleges should be permanently established at New London, under a management that shall not be handicapped by the simultaneous presence upon the river of any other crews whatever. As it seems to me, on the one hand, that Harvard's support of the new regatta will...
...well known that the Passaic, Triton, and Eureka boat-clubs of Newark have intrusted to the N. A. A. O. three massive silver cups, to be annually offered as challenge prizes, for the exclusive competition of undergraduate oarsmen, rowing respectively in eights, fours, and singles. The races are to be straightaway, and the definition of "undergraduate" is to be the same as that which was maintained by the R. A. A. C. during the last four years of its history. The races are to be rowed either at Newark or Saratoga, during the first week of July...
...only colleges as yet definitely committed to the support of the new scheme are Wesleyan and Bowdoin, which have wisely decided to compete for the four-oared prize of the N. A. A. O., rather than row a special race with one another as previously arranged. Wesleyan already has fifteen man in training. At Princeton and Rutgers there is considerable talk of entering for the same prize, and another possible competitor is the University of Virginia, provided its four-oared crew should win the race at Lynchburg on the last Friday of June. Should the University Eight of Harvard announce...