Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Classic Boat Race on Thames...
...annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities will take place today on the Thames river, England. The course is four miles long lying between Putney and Mortlake. The Cambridge eight is picked to win by most of the English experts, although Oxford finished three-quarters of a length ahead last year. This race is a historical event, having been originated in 1840, before the introduction of outriggers and sliding seats. Since that time Oxford has won 38 times and Cambridge 30, with one dead heat and five years in which no races were rowed...
...this year very badly. F. W. Capper '15, winner of third place in the last Yale meet, E. P. Stone '15, and W. J. Bingham '16, who broke the Freshman dual meet record last year and whose running against Halpin of the B. A. A. in the last relay race was a feature of the victory, will probably do well in this event, which is one of Yale's strongest...
...mile run looks as if it would be an all Harvard event again this year. R. St. B. Boyd '14, the Intercollegiate cross-country champion and winner of this race at New Haven in 1913, will be seconded by F. H. Blackman '14, second in the Yale cross-country run, by B. S. Carter '15, third in the Yale 2-mile, C. Southworth '15, and B. V. Zamore...
...year was a year of unusual success in athletic contests: in football, in hockey, in baseball, and in rowing the teams won notable victories; and the ten men of the cross-country team that met ten men from Yale took the first ten places in the race. The victory in football marked the fifth and last year of Mr. Haughton's first term as coach. The Committee took great pleasure in re-engaging him for a term of three years. In baseball the College saw a well-earned Harvard victory over a team generally believed to be much stronger...