Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intercollegiate cross-country race will be run at New Haven on November 25, the day of the Yale football game. The rest of the schedule has not been definitely arranged as yet, but the Yale race will be held over the Bailment course probably on November 11, and the Cornell meet will be held at Ithacca, probably on November...
...true sportsman," he said, "takes little satisfaction in winning a race against an opponent who has broken his leg, and those who have cherished the loftiest hopes for our future academic development would, I believe, prefer that we wait a generation or two longer rather than that we should align ourselves with the commercial interests that are hovering like carrion vultures above the battlefields of Europe...
...first and second Yale crews held a practice race in which both crews rowed at a rapid clip. The new order of the Yale crew seemed to be well chosen, however, for this boat had no trouble in defeating the junior eight by a comfortable lead of two lengths
...whole story is by no means accounted for in this way. A great part of the lack of success has been inability properly to drive the boat. One hears a lot of talk about sprinting crews and four-mile crews, but the fact remains that in the two-mile race the crew is coached to give its all, just as is the case in a four-mile race. A crew can give only so much; it gives it quicker in the two-mile route, that's all; in the four-mile distance the strain is longer, but not concentrated...
...Although the Yale squad is at present divided into Crews A and B, it is not understood that the 'A' crew is the crew that will meet Harvard in the 'varsity race. It all depends. Primarily, of course, the two crews--the members thereof varying--are to be regarded as melting-post out of which will come a university product...