Word: records
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON'S compilation of the records made by amateur athletes in 1888, in the issue of Wednesday, several mistakes were made which we take this opportunity of correcting. It was stated that at the intercollegiate games in New York last May, Webster, of the University of Pennsylvania, broke the world's record in the high jump, with a jump of 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches. He defeated Page at the games but did not equal Page's record which at that time was over six feet. In the pole vault, an unfair comparison was made between Shearman's record...
...meeting of the Athletic Association held yesterday afternoon it was voted to add a bantam weight contest to the list of sparring events at the winter meetings. Bell, '91, was also voted a cup for breaking the Harvard record in the hurdle race...
During the past year, many new laurels have been won, in almost every branch of record athletics, by members of the various athletic clubs. The colleges have held their own at every contest in which they have been represented, and, although at the Mott Haven meeting last May comparatively few records were broken, the account of the work that was done during the summer, at home and abroad, by college athletes, will have a prominent place in the annals of athletic sports. The leading athletic clubs have divided themselves into two associations, the National Amateur Athletic Association...
...class of '90 at Yale have distinguished themselves by receiving the greatest number of appointments for good scholarship of any class on record. The class of '84 formerly headed the list with ninety-eight names, but '90 has surpassed this number by six. The names of athletic men are conspicuously absent, while there are several society men honored, including four members of the promenade committee. Philosophicals have been assigned to only five men, an unusually small number. The remaining ninety-nine are about equally divided, fifteen receiving high orations, thirteen orations, thirteen dissertations, fifteen first deputies, sixteen second deputies, twelve...
...given up this winter owing to the lack of interest. The first meeting will be held January 29, and at least one every week thereafter. The meetings will all be handicap. The new men will at first receive the full allowance, and after that be handicapped at their respective records. The prizes will be awarded at each meeting and held until the final, and the man having the best record for points for the year will retain the prize...