Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale's weekly meeting on Tuesday evening, H. G. Shearman, '89, broke the Yale record in the running high jump with a jump of 5 feet 7 1-2 inches...
...Root, Dalzell, and Dickerman, '91, S., are training with the University nine. The men are an unusually good set, and the competition for positions will he uncommonly close. F. C. Huntington, who was recently elected temporary captain, is one of the most promising candidates, and judging from his past record as second-baseman for three years on the Exter nine, he will do credit to his class. All the men are at present exercising in a body. They run a short distance every day, besides doing general gymnasium work, using chest-weights, dumb-bells and Indian clubs. Until very recently...
...Mercur, King, p., Wagenhusst, 3b.; Price, s. s.; Durell, r. f.; Reynolds, l. f. A number of candidates have presented themselves for the vacant positions, all of whom are well qualified to compete. The most promising candidate for first base is Dana, '91, who made for himself a good record as first-base man on the Exeter nine. This position on the Princeton team, it will be remembered, is made vacant by Larkin, last year's captain, not being back. There is available material in the freshman class that is somewhat above the average, and one or two men will...
...quarter-mile run Yale is weak, and the race will lie between Banks, of Columbia, who holds the world's record at that distance, and Wells, of Harvard, who is remarkably fast and will push Banks very closely for first place. In the half-mile run, too, Yale is pretty weak, and unless some new man turns up this event will go to Cogswell, of Harvard, who was entered in the fall games last year, or Faries, of the U. of P. Both of these men are strong runners at that distance and the winner will have to make good...
Last Saturday evening's Record had a long article on Harvard athletics...