Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Oxford and Cambridge Universities have each two trial eights in training for their annual race...
...Fiske, who rowed bow in the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, last spring, has been elected captain of the sophomore crew, in place of G. S. Mumford, resigned...
Furthermore, we are assured by our oarsmen, that a straight course is essential to a fair race between eights and that the course at New London is not broad enough to allow more than two. crews to row a straight course. If three crews started off together, a crooked course, according to the bends of the river, would have to be followed. Such a course, on account of the current in the middle of the river, would be manifestly unfair to the outside boats. Eel grass would then justly serve as an excuse for the defeated crews. Moreover, the trouble...
...mile bicycle race...
...mile bicycle race...