Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stated on the authority of the Yale News that in 1845 the seniors there won the boat race from the freshmen by tying a stone to the latter's boat...
...Harrow foot-ball and cricket teams. There is a great annual cricket match between the two schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...
...last meeting of the Polo Club, it was decided to have match games in the spring. The winning team will be presented with silver cups. The advisability of a race was also discussed...
...Harvards train in a room where no outsiders are admitted. Yale men complain that everything they do becomes public property too quick. To illustrate this they cite the fact that Harvard's having a professional trainer was not known until a few days before the race...
...sure no outsiders are admitted to the rowing room itself, but the uncurtained window in the door has never been an obstacle to any outsiders' view of the men at work. The statement "that Harvard's having a professional trainer was not known until a few days before the race" looks the important basis of truth, for the fact was known to the undergraduates and all men in Boston, and vicinity interested in our success on the water. Last year's victory was hardly due to professional training no matter how important it may have been...