Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...afternoon. Besides Harvard, teams have been entered from Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cornell has won the championship for the last four years, and is expected to win again this year. Last year the University team was a close second, but, judging from the race with Technology on November 16, is not as strong as last year...
Since the race with Technology the work of the team has been light, except on last Friday, when a run of nine miles was taken. Tomorrow the team will walk over the Princeton course, which is six miles long...
Seven colleges will be represented at the eighth annual intercollegiate cross country run, to be held in Princeton, New Jersey, next Wednesday. In previous years the race has been held over the Travers Island course, and is being held at Princeton this year for the first time...
Each team will be composed of seven men, but only the first four to finish for each team will count in the scoring. First place in the race will count one point, second, two, and so on, the team scoring the least number of points winning...
...rowing authorities at Oxford and Cambridge have declined the invitation of the commissioners of the Jamestown Exposition to send over the winner of the next British inter-university crew race to meet the winner of the next Harvard-Yale race. The proposition was made that the race should be held at the exposition next summer...