Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale spring meeting day before yesterday, two inter-collegiate and six Yale records were broken. Coxe '87, threw the hammer 94 feet 3 1-2 inches, beating the record Chamberlain made on May 15th by 4 feet, 3 inches. Ludington '87 beat the 120 yards hurdle race record of 17 1-4 seconds by 1-20 of a second, winning in 17 1 5 second...
...together on the same day. So that a matter which has been the subject of so much discussion and deliberation, is now practically settled, and it only remains to arrange the details. Both the Columbia and Yale freshmen have exceedingly good crews, as their records in the recent class races show; and we ourselves have seen what the Harvard freshmen can do; so that there is no doubt but that there will be a close and exciting race. This will be the first time that anything of the kind has been attempted, and we are glad to know that...
...Columbia freshmen have agreed to allow Yale '89 to enter the annual two mile race between the freshman crews of Columbia and Harvard at New London. As our freshmen have already given their consent, the race will be rowed between the three colleges. It will probably be rowed on June 30, the day before the Yale-Harvard' varsity race...
...yards hurdle race. - Bradley, '86; Noble...
...mile bicycle race - F. L. Dean...