Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following were officers of the race...
...race with Columbia yesterday was postponed on account of the bad weather...
Altogether, New London is going to be a lively place from Thursday on, for the Harvard-Columbia race is to rowed there, and the freshmen of the two colleges row a week later, so that there are four races on the bills. There may be five, for if Yale, '90, wins the race against Pennsylvania, she will challenge Harvard, '90, at once to a race the following Saturday...
Yale men would like to feel as sure of the race, but they do not by a good deal. The crew is, with two exceptions, the same that beat the record last July; but Cowles and Hartridge, who are not in the boat this year, were by far the most powerful men in it last year. Their loss has not been made good. Again, sickness has interfered with the crew's work since April, and even now Middlebrook is just getting over a boil. The men are rowing exactly the same stroke that Bob Cook taught them last year. Caldwell...
...upon which the two may be considered to agree, although there is considerable divergence of opinion between them in other matters, is the uselessness and absurdity of the college crews-maintaining the secrecy that they attempt to regarding their movements and performances prior to the time of the annual race. As one of these authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle innocent and unsuspecting betters into a confidence game, it would be all right for them to put forth what are, to say the least, misleading reports concerning their condition...