Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seventh of April by Company A of the twenty-third regiment, there will be ten events open to entries from college men. These events include the following: fifty yards dash, handicap; 220 yards dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; two mile bicycle, handicap; quarter mile run, handicap; potato race, scratch; one mile walk, handicap; 220 yards hardle; running high jump, the handicap being limited to three inches; intercollegiate tug of war. Gold and silver medals will be awarded as prizes in the contests. In the tug of war, the winning team alone will receive prizes. Yale will send...
...annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race takes place on Saturday, March 24. The betting is two to one in favor of Cambridge. Both crews are heavier than the average Harvard and Yale crews of the last few years...
...annual boat race between Cambridge and Oxford takes place next Saturday, the 24th of March. It is thought that the contest will be a close one. Cambridge has a finer set of men and her crew is working very hard. But the Oxford crew row in better form than their rivals, and will have an advantage if the race is in a high wind. Their stroke is more effective in rough water than that of the Cambridge...
...representatives of the Columbia College Boat Club and the Harvard University Boat Club that no date can be fixed and agreed upon which will be mutually convenient and satisfactory to both clubs, it is hereby mutually agreed by the undersigned representatives of said clubs to abandon the university race between Columbia and Harvard...
...special effort is being made at Yale to develop men for the hurdle races to be contested in the Mott Haven games this spring. Men are training for the 220, as well as for the 120-yards race, in the rink at New Haven. A series of hurdles have been placed near the gymnasium and many of the men practice there in pleasant weather. The following are the names of the men most active in practicing for this event: Berger, '88 S., captain; Lentelhon, '89 S., Gruiswold, '90, Tracey, '90, Parker, '91, and Deening...