Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...challenge has been received by the Columbia freshmen from the Yale freshmen to row them a two mile race on the Thames at New London within a week of the Yale-Harvard 'Varsity race. The Columbia men favor such a proposition, but acting on the advice of the boat club, they will probably refuse the challenge...
...former years. He went out in the afternoon to look the men over and see what progress they had made with the stroke. it is highly probable that there will be a considerable weeding out of the candidates soon, and the selection of the crew that is to race with Harvard will be made immediately after. The men are in excellent condition, owing in a large measure to the conscientious supervision of Captain Stevenson...
...Wright, L. S.; Rublee, '90; Brackett, '91; Howe, '91, and Paine, '91, walked a mile, making it in eight minutes, twenty seconds. The walk was merely for practice, no attempe being made to make fast time. Beside the gymnasium, hurdles were set up, and the candidates for the hurdle race practised here...
...meeting of the Bicycle Club Tuesday night, it was voted to hold the spring road race on April 27, or if the weather is unfavorable then, on May 4. The race will be similar to the one held last November, over the fifteen mile course, through Brighton, Newton, Waltham and Watertown. A committee, consisting of Davis, '91; J. A. Bailey, '88, and Brown, '91, was appointed to make arrangements, as to handicaps, judges and prizes...
...Mott Haven games in New York last spring, the H. A. A. was not represented in the hurdle race, but, from the present outlook, such will not be the case this year. It was felt last year that much depended on the short flat races. Yale and Columbia had fast and experienced hurdlers, while Harvard had none at regular work. Hurdling is a race which requires quite as much "knack" as physical qualities. With such a handicap it was thought unwise to sacrifice any of our sprinters to a probable failure. This year, however, a new hurdle race has been...