Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There was no "blunder" nor was there "unexplainable lack of judgment." A very little sane consideration will show this conclusively, now that the first keen disappointment in losing a race which, frankly, everyone expected to win, is over. What were the facts? Van Brunt was an experienced runner, the only "H" man qualified to make the relay team and the only one who had had previous experience on University relay teams. He has made better time in the half-mile run than any other man in College. He had had sufficient practice. A bad ankle, which had prevented his training...
Such censure as has followed the race is extremely unfair to all concerned and wholly unjustified. It is always easy to criticise. When criticism is justly due, in athletics or in other University affairs, let it come. But rather than jump to conclusions, as in this case, from the mere result of a race, let those who criticise first acquire a thorough knowledge of the facts of the situation. WILLIAM G. GRAVES...
Harvard-Yale University race--Won by Yale (M. Kirjassoff, R. L. Spitzer, R. La Montagne, L. Stevens); second, Harvard (M. B. Van Brunt '08, P. C. Huskell '08, E. K. Merrihew '10, H. Watson '10). Time...
Harvard-Yale Freshman race--Won by Harvard 1911 (A Sweetser, M. Steinhardt, H. A. Johnson, R. C. Foster); second, Yale 1911 (C. Baird, R. Murray, P. Kirjassoff. S. Short). Time...
Upper-class race--Won by 1910 (F. S. Blanchard, R. F. Hoyt, H. E. Keays, F. M. de Selding); second, 1909 (R. F. Howes, W. F. Whitcher, E. T. Dana, W. M. Rand); third, 1908 (H. R. Francis, P. W. Davis, J. F. Macdonald, M. C. Hutchinson). Time...