Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prizes in the races of the Yale Bicycle Club will be slid pennants, on which be inscribed in gold letters the event and the winner's name. The prize for the Yale-Harvard race will be a pennant, half of crimson, half of blue, silk...
...YARDS DASHwas run. The contestants were, W. Baker, '86, F. S Billings, '85 and E. H. Rogers, '87, who, after several false starts, got off squarely and finished in the order above given, Baker taking the lead easily in the race and holding it well. Billings and Rogers ran side by side, but at eighty yards Billings worked ahead and came in four or five yards after Baker, with Rogers a good third. Baker's time was 10 1-8. Next in order came...
...four classes on the Charles. It is proposed to have the pitcher very large, with surface enough to hold the record for a hundred years. The pitcher is to be awarded each year to the class which has in that year won the greatest number of races on the Charles, no student rowing in more than one race. Thus no class would be likely to win which had not trained ten or fifteen crews. A genuine competition for this pitcher, with half the college in training, would furnish the livliest feature of the college sports. Fortunately, lack of ground, which...
...yards hurdle race-S. Abbot, '87; J. D. Bradley, '86; G. R. Agassiz, '84; S. Cary...
...quick stroke won yesterday in the Harvard class race. It is, however, by no means sure that the usual slower stroke, as pulled by the university crew, would not-if thoroughly mastered-have carried the seniors to a still more creditable victory. It will be a mistake in Cambridge boating if the university crew is deprived of the ability to fill sudden vacancies in its boat by drawing men from the class eight, simply because class captains prefer to try a fancy stroke for a two-mile race...