Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This afternoon, at 4.10 o'clock, candidates for the cross country team will meet at the Locker Building for the trial race, which will determine the team to run against Technology on November 11. The course is along the west side of Fresh Pond and back, a distance of about five and one-half miles, and is the same which the squad ran over on Wednesday...
...meeting of the dormitory crew captains, last evening, it was decided that the inter-dormitory races should be bumping races, similar to those rowed at Oxford and Cambridge. The advantage of these races is that any number of boats can race, whereas in the regular straight-away races not more than four boats can row abreast. The object of the race is to bump the boat ahead. That boat is then out of the race and the successful crew is eligible to compete in the next race...
...races will be rowed down stream, a distance of one and one-half miles, finishing at the University Boat Club. Owing to the unfavorable tides next week, it has been decided to postpone the races until the week after the Pennsylvania game. The first race will be held on Monday, November 13, and the remainder will be rowed off as quickly as possible...
Wednesday, February 7.--"La Bretagne; la terre-et la Race...
...need fear of lacking sufficient ability. These runs are of inestimable advantage to men who intend to run the half, the mile and the two mile in the spring. Trials will be held for the team about November 1. The following week there will be a cross country race with first, second third prizes for men who fall to make the team...