Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Yale freshman class on Tuesday it was voted to challenge Harvard '92 to a race at New London, in accordance with Captain Woodruff's advice. The following officers of the base-ball association were elected: President, W. Parker; vice president, W. P. Hamilton; treasurers, Floyd, Jones and Wurtz...
...Yale is very anxious to row a race with an English crew. There was not a man in our boat last June after our race with Harvard who would not have gladly remained in training if a race could have been secured. Yale will begin official negotiations very shortly with Cambridge relative to arranging a race if it is possible to do so. One or two things, however, may prove rather considerable obstacles. In the first place, any idea of a race between Yale and Cambridge in April, as has been suggested by the newspapers, is out of the question...
...Again, the race with Harvard is toward the end of June, and if we trained our crew for a race in April it would be hard to keep them in fit physical condition for the June race with Harvard. These reasons seem to us here at Yale to e weighty enough almost to necessitate placing the date of the proposed Yale-Cambridge race in July or early in August. We don't know how the Englishmen feel about it because we have not heard from them yet. We shall open negotiations soon and see how they look at the question...
Yale again denies all knowledge of the Cambridge race...
...bicycle road race next Saturday between Harvard and M. I. T. will be over a course beginning at a point about half mile this side of Newton Corners, thence to Newtonville, then turning to the right directly through West Newton to the Great Sign Boards; then turning to the left back to the starting pointvia Beacon and Walnut streets, a distance of nine miles. Harvard's team will consist of Rogers, '90. Bailey, '91, Barron. '91, Brown, '91, Greenleaf, '92, Wirts, '92, and Holmes, '92. There will be a run over the course this afternoon at 4 o'clock, starting...