Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following is the order of events of the H. A. A. next Friday: 1. half-mile run; 2. mile walk; 3. one hundred yards' dash; 4. running broad jump; 5. one mile run; 6. hurdle race (120 yards); 7. one fourth mile run; 8. potato race; 9. three-legged race; 10. bicycle race (three miles). Contestants are reminded that if they do not appear within five minutes after the bell is rung, they will positively be excluded...
...have been offered by private gentlemen for the following events, conditional on the appended time being equalled or beaten: One fourth mile run, 56 s.; one hundred yards' dash, 10 1/2 s.; one mile run, 4 m. 55 s.; one mile walk, 8 m. The prize for the bicycle race is made conditional on five men starting; the H. A. A. will add a handsome second prize if five men finish the race...
SINGLE-SCULL RACE (2 miles).F. Peabody, T. Houghton, C. Wilde, U. B. C.; G. H. Benyon, N. B. C.; W. N. Goddard, G. Griswold...
...RACE (2 miles).Matthews: P. Keyes, '79 (bow), Captain; F. B. Hall, '80, E. Fuller, '80, G. B. Hatch, '80, L. F. Woodward, S. S., G. K. Boutelle, '78, H. W. Mason, '78 (coxswain). Weld: P. Tuckerman, '78 (bow), H. Townsend, '80, D. O. Ives, '79, A. W. Hooper, '81, W. Trimble, '79, R. Trimble, '80 (stroke), F. H. Allen...
FOUR-OARED RACE (2 miles).Union: T. Houghton, C. H. Williams, Jones (bow), F. Peabody (stroke), Williams, 2d. (cox.). Harvard: W. Kessler, '78 (bow), T. W. Preston, '79, J. Parker, '78, L. N. Littauer, '78 (stroke), G. L. Cheney...