Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestion made by "Bob" Cook through the medium of the press about a week ago, that the Yale eight sail across the briny deep and do battle with the winner of the great Oxford Cambridge boat race, has aroused in tense interest and enthusiasm among the Yale students and alumni, and has been favorably received all over the country. The fact that no Yale eight ever measured oars with their British cousins lends additional interest to the proposed contest. The only race of an international character in which Yale ever engaged was the centennial regatta, which...
...there has been no action of any kind taken by the Yale alumni or the undergraduates with regard to the proposed international race. Last spring, when the question of the race between Harvard and Cambridge was being agitated, a few prominent boating men of Yale, held a consultation, at which it was decided that if the Cambridge crew came over here, and if Yale defeated Harvard, the wearers of the blue would challenge the Englishmen. As the latter concluded not to come to this country the matter was dropped. It is not at all probable that the Cambridge...
...half-mile run was contested by R. R. Endicott, Jr., '90 (15 yards), H. R. Miles, '88 (15 yards), F. B. Dana, 88 (scratch), G. P. Cogswell, '88 (scratch). Cogswell won after a hot race in the time...
...Davis, '91, lowered the Harvard record in the two-mile bicycle race from 6m. 183-4s, to 6m. 2 1-2s, K. Brown, '91, was second in this event by about 3 feet, with the assistance of a liberal handicap...
...first race was between the upper class crews, as follows: First crew-Bow, C. H. Taylor, Jr.; 2, Amory; 3, Crehore; 4, Hebard; 5, Ayer; 6, Hartridge; 7, Hale; stroke, Storrow. Second crew-Bow, Pfeiffer; 2, Davis; 3, Matthews; 4, Parker; 5, Alexander; 6, Slocum; 7, B. T. Tilton; stroke, Pfeiffer. The first named crew won by about a length. The coxwain was Browne, '88. Four freshmen crews then gave an amusing exhibition of crabbing. The crews were...