Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report sent out Monday that representatives of Columbia College were in town conferring with Yale in regard to the latter's being admitted as the third crew in the race at New London next summer, and that Yale was willing to have them do so, is pronounced by Captain John Rogers. Percey Bolton, the coach, and many others of the crew to be utterly without foundation...
...publish on our first page to-day a clipping from the Boston Globe in regard to the Columbia race. The fact that Yale and Columbia have patched up a combination in this rowing matter was at first doubted among the students who heard of the affair yesterday. And it seems that they doubted with great propriety. The proposition of admitting Columbia into the four-mile race with Yale on the Thames is preposterous. Every rowing man and almost every student in the country knows that the course at New London is utterly unfit for a race between three crews...
...freshman race, the question at issue has been decided once, and the bringing up of the subject for reconsideration is out of place, especially when our friends at New Haven believe it advisable to join forces with Columbia, and by demanding recklessly, hope that something may be granted...
...constitution of the new base-ball league admitting Columbia to an equal participation is hardly dry before we hear that college wants something more and this appears to be a share in the Yale-Harvard boat race. The following extract from the Globe of yesterday in speaking of the freshman race speaks for itself...
...Columbia will throw her influence strongly in favor of admitting the Yale freshmen to the race, while Yale will favor the admission of the Columbia 'Varsity Crew to the great Harvard-Yale race, which has become the leading sporting event of the season in this country. Columbia had a crew last year that defeated the crack eight from Cambridge and would undoubtedly have given Yale a hot race had the two crews been permitted to meet Columbia has attained such excellence in all branches of athletics that there seems to be no reason why her crew should not be considered...