Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale has been invited by the University of Pennsylvania to enter as a competitor for the Childs cup, in the place of Princeton. The Harvard race will require so much time and work from Yale that she has deemed it impossible to accept...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- As all who saw the class races must have observed, three tug-boats, the referee's boat and two others, passed ahead of '86 and '88 some distance from the finish. The inevitable result was that those two crews were very considerably impeded. Such a thing ought never to have been allowed. An interference of that sort might determine the order of the two last crews, which is not a matter of entire indifference. In this case it apparently did not have that effect, but such an interference must always have the effect of making it still...
...shell were unoccupied. Inquiry elicited the information that Cabot had been obliged to give up his oar by the advice of Dr. Sargent, enforced by an order from President Eliot. As this state of affairs was made known to Captain Latham only a few hours before the race, it was impossible to meet the emergency, since the substitutes were not sufficiently accustomed to rowing in a shell to render them of much service. Under these circumstances the crew pluckily determined to pull the race with six oars rather than to withdraw from the race altogether. The six men were seated...
...RACE...
...This order was not greatly altered at the sluice-way. When the leading crews reached Exeter Street, the sophomores had drawn up on the seniors, and from this point on, they gradually increased their lead. From Exeter Street to the finish, the race between '85 and '87 was a magnificent struggle, but '87 steadily gained until the boat crossed the line a length and a half to the good, in 11 m. 13 1-2s., followed by '85 in 11m. 24 1 2s; '88, in 12m. 29 1-2s.; and '86 in 13m. Both these latter boats narrowly...