Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort is being made by the students to have the vote rescinded, and thus far they have succeeded in getting the faculty to hold the matter in abeyance for one week. Should the faculty refuse to reconsider the matter, all college athletics will have to be dropped. The boat races will come off as usual, as the college has no jurisdiction in the matter, because the race takes place after the close of the college term...
...annual races of the Canoe Club held yesterday afternoon proved very successful. The afternoon, though very warm, was pleasant, and the water was smooth and favorable for a good race...
...first event was a race between tandem birch canoes, one miles with turn, in which there were three entries: (1) C. Greene, '89, and Vaughan, '90; (2) Townsend, '89, and Holder, '88; (3) Deblois, '89, and Marquand, '89. The race was well contested, Greene and Vaughan winning in 11m. 8 1-2s. Townsend and Holder were a close second...
...annual races of the Harvard Canoe Club will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock. There will be four races: First, an open race for sailing canoes over a triangular course of two miles; second, an open paddling race for single canoes, one mile with turn; third, an open paddling race for tandem canoes, one mile, with turn; fourth, paddling race for tandem birches, one mile with turn...
...predictions in regard to the probable winners at the games in New York to-day:- 100-yards and 220-yards dashes, Sherrill of Yale; quarter-mile run, Wells of Harvard; half-mile run. Cogswell of Harvard; mile run, Davenport of Harvard; mile walk, Wright of Harvard; 120-yards hurdle race, Berger of Yale; 220-yards hurdle, Mapes of Columbia; two-mile bicycle race, between Keen of U. of P. and Davis and Brown of Harvard; high jump, Page of U. of P.; broad jump, Shearman of Yale; pole vault, Shearman of Yale; throwing the hammer, Coxe of Yale or Brinton...