Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge-Oxford 'Varsity race occurs...
...Oxford-Cambridge boat race is attracting far less attention than usual. Neither crew is thought remarkable, but experts expect the Oxfords to win, as they are the more powerful crew, though both are about equal in point of style. - Yale News...
...yesterday's communication, than by simply showing thus how ridiculous the writer's claim is. The fact that the university crew men do not row on the class crews does not at all apply, since the 'Varsity men can not practice by themselves until the day before the class race and then disperse into their class boats, and row with other men with half the efficacy that poorer rowers who have been training together. The university crew cannot well join the class crews, if they would. And in the case of the coxswain, it is quite well known that when...
...said to the contrary it is undoubtedly true that university teams, in the present condition of college athletics, have a regular business before them. There is no pleasure in playing a championship game of foot-ball with Yale College. And, perhaps, there is still less in rowing a race on the Thames. It is a real and earnest business, whether too much so for college sports is not the question here, and the long and tedious work is what will count for the most when the most is needed...
...rest a day and then go on. If one finds his lungs a little weaker than the others, and that he cannot run from a warm gymnasium into the cold, frosty air without injuring himself, he leaves the team. And yet, perhaps, that very man would row a better race in June than the others...