Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycle road race between Harvard and Technology will take place next Saturday afternoon. The start will be promptly at 2.30 and the race will take about an hour. The finish will be near St. Mary's street, on the Beacon street boulevard. There will probably be a large number of entries from each club, but only the first five men from each side will count at the finish. There will be a run over the course today and Thursday in order that the competitors may become familiar with the turns. The joint committee have considered the question of a perpetual...
...race between Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania will be rowed June 28th, the day before the Yale-Harvard race...
...stated by mistake in yesterday's paper that all the prizes for the bicycle race meet are offered by dealers in sporting goods. Only those designated are given thus, most of the prizes being offered by the club...
...plans of the Bicycle Club for the coming season show that that organization is in a most prosperous condition The Tech. road race, the club road race, the spring meeting and the weekly run will place bicycling among the prominent athletic sports. The arrangements for the track race meeting, which were published yesterday, promise that this will be by far the most elaborate bicycling tournament ever held at Harvard or at any other college. The opening of some of the events to all amateur riders gives the meeting a much broader interest and will undoubtedly result in raising the standard...
...make the meet a success the club will need the help of the university at large. The expenses will be very heavy and will require the sale of a large number of tickets. As the race will surely be most interesting there is no reason why the required number should not be sold. No movement which will raise the standard of Harvard athletics as this promises to do, should be hindered by lack of interest...