Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Representative teams of Ireland and Wales engaged in the annual competition at Rugby foot-ball on Wrexham race-course on the 4th inst. The international matches of Rugby were begun in 1881, when Wales won. The match of 1882 was drawn, and Wales then won uninterruptedly up to last year, when Ireland scored its first victory. This year Wales put a very strong team in the field, with the result that Ireland was beaten by 11 goals...
...much better. In the long distance events our time is somewhat slower, but in the short distance the records are about the same. In putting the shot we have done better, while the records in throwing the hammer show about an equal amount of ability. In the hurdle race we are still inferior.- Yale News...
...Institute of Technology Bicycle Club will be very active this season. A hare and hounds run will be held on Fast Day, and a race meeting later on in the year...
...freshman crew has received a challenge from the Yale freshmen to row a two mile race in eight-oared shells with coxswains, on the Thames, at New London, within a week of the Yale-Harvard 'Varsity race...
...earliest eight-oared race was one between a London crew and Christ Church, Oxford, for $200, in 1828. It was rowed from Westminister to Putney, and won by London by 70 yards. The following year the first race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities took place on Henley Reach, a distance of two miles and a quarter, and was won by Oxford...