Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dinner has been given to the Crew at Young's, where, amid junketing and speech-making, plans for the future were discussed; a meeting of the H. U. B. C. has been held, and has adopted the suggestions made at the dinner; and a challenge for an eight-oared race of four miles has been received from Cornell. It is stated on good authority that Columbia is eager for a race. Mr. Roberts has been authorized to write an unofficial letter to England to ascertain whether it will be possible to arrange a race with the English University eights...
ATHLETICS.Taken as a whole, the times made at our fall meeting on last Saturday were fairly good. The track, of course, was rather slow, but not as much so as was generally supposed, as the time in the 100-yards, 220-yards, and hurdle-race will show, all these times being most excellent. Several men have said that the track is over distance, and that it should have been a fifth-mile measured eighteen inches from the pole. The track was laid out by a surveyor, and is a fifth-mile measured about two inches from the pole. Perhaps...
Columbia College Fall Races. - These races were rowed on October 26, over a one-mile course, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. W. B. Parsons, '79, walked over for the single sculls in 7 min. 33 sec. '79 won the six-oared barge race in 5 min. 33 sec, '82 second, '81 third. Eldridge, '79, and Brown, '78, won the pair-oared race, beating Ridabock, '79, and Fiske, '81, in 7 min. 30 sec. College beat School of Mines in the four-oared barge race in 6 min. 51 sec. There were also some tub races...
Atalanta B. C. - At the Metropolitan Regatta, on October 17, Messrs. Downs and Eustis, after winning the pair-oared race, were run over by a tow-boat, their shell smashed, and they were forced to swim for their lives, Downs receiving a severe scalp-wound from the boat's paddle-wheel. They sued for damages, and were awarded $250 each, and $65 for their shell...
...recommend to the notice of H. A. A. some of the athletic sports in vogue at Amherst. A "Fat Men's Quarter-Mile" if introduced here, would excite much interest, and the entries would be large. A "Sack Race" would have its attractions, while a thrilling novelty would be a favorite race at Amherst, - at once humane, athletic, and amusing, - i. e. a "Greased Pig Race." A "barrel of cider to the class winning the most races" would also be an incentive to individual prowess, and would doubtless prove a strong card...