Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dispatch has been sent from London to the associated press announcing that the boat race between Cambridge and Yale University has been fixed approximately for April 15. President Snipe of the Yale navy and Captain Woodruff deny this positively. They say that Yale has not even challenged Cambridge. In spite of this assertion another dispatch announces that Oxford also will be ready to row Yale, and that the Cambridge crew is hard at work training...
...Harvard-Tech. bicycle race has been postponed until next Saturday on account of the present poor condition of the roads...
...gymnasium building, and it is hoped that the tank will be ready by the first of next year. We congratulate the crew on the accomplishment of their plan and trust that the new tank may aid them and future crews to win many a race from Yale. The value of the tank has been sufficiently demonstrated by the success of the Yale crews of the past two years. Thanks are due to the college authorities for their kind permission to allow the old gymnasium to be used. The crew this year will have at least two months more...
...story that has been printed in New York that Yale has challenged the Cambridge, England, crew to an eight-oared race this coming summer, is denied by the management of the Yale crew. The Yale men think favorably of such a race and would undoubtedly cross the water if suitable arrangements could be made. Last year Mr. Oelrichs of New York offered to send the Yale crew to England, but owing to the fact that the English crew had stopped training, the race fell through...
...handicap race around the lower reservoir for the Daniels cup took place Saturday. The distance is one and one-sixth miles. There were four starters, Davis '91 at the scratch, and the others with handicaps of from fifty to two hundred yards. Davis easily passed the other men and won in 3 minutes 19.3 seconds, beating the previous record. Immediately after the race Davis and Cornish made the same distance on a tandem safety in 3 minutes and 23 seconds, which is also a new record...