Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the many candidates in training for the Oxford crew two eights have at last been selected, and nothing remains but to choose from them the eight men who shall represent Oxford in the Oxford-Cambridge race. Great doubt is felt at Oxford as regards the strength of the crew. The material is inferior to that of former years, and the average weight of the men is but 160 lbs. Only three members of last year's crew are rowing, but the fact that their weight is at present the same as at the time of last year's race...
...teams. Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, 23rd Regiment, Crescents of Tynn and Nassaus will enter teams. There will also be at the same time the following handicap events for gold and silver medals: Fifty yards dash, 220-yards run, 600-yards run, one-mile run, one-mile walk, two-mile bicycle race and running high jump, open to all amateurs. Entries close Feb. 12, with John T. Hetrick, secretary, Brooklyn...
...quarter-mile run Yale is weak, and the race will lie between Banks, of Columbia, who holds the world's record at that distance, and Wells, of Harvard, who is remarkably fast and will push Banks very closely for first place. In the half-mile run, too, Yale is pretty weak, and unless some new man turns up this event will go to Cogswell, of Harvard, who was entered in the fall games last year, or Faries, of the U. of P. Both of these men are strong runners at that distance and the winner will have to make good...
...bicycle race lies between Harvard and the U. of P. If Coxe enters he can win the hammer and shot with ease, otherwise Lafayette will probably win the events. Yale's chances in the tug-of-war are better than ever before, but both Columbia and Harvard will be hard to beat. On the whole Yale's chances are not particularly good unless Coxe enters. Sherrill, Berger, Harmer and Shearman may be counted on, but these will not be enough to retain the cup. If, however, Coxe wins his two events again, Yale is in no danger of having...
...takes particular pains to aid each man individually. Bob Cooke has not yet put in an appearance, but he is expected during the early part of April, when he will look after both the freshman crew and the 'Varsity. The freshmen hope to come in ahead in the class races, and it is whispered they are by no means despondent of leaving the Harvard freshman crew in the rear, if they succeed in making arrangements for a race with them...