Word: saratoga
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Yale vs. Harvard, Saratoga, July...
...would be an excellent thing for the winners, at all events, of our spring contest (which we understand will take place about May 12), to enter themselves for the different sports of the New York Club. For Harvard men have not won any very great laurels at the Saratoga meetings, and it would be well for them to have as much practice as possible before going again to Saratoga. And competing with men of about equal ability, such as they are likely to meet at the New York Club, would be of great advantage. We hope that...
...meetings which have always, until this year, taken place in the spring and autumn when the condition of Jarvis rendered meetings impossible. It was owing to the success of this enterprise that Harvard started the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which some ten or twelve colleges joined, and it was at Saratoga last year that this association met for the first time as a regular College organization. The tournaments in the Gymnasium were instituted last year; these contests were generally thought to be an excellent thing in affording an additional opportunity to men of matching themselves, and in giving them more practice...
Their assistance, however, came so late that it failed to receive the reward it merited. The new boat was hastily constructed and hastily forwarded, and reached Saratoga twisted and unfit for use. There were many repairs to be made, and all too little time for practice; and during the race an accident occurred, arising from this hasty construction and lack of time for repairs, which seriously affected the crew's time, and, there is good reason to suppose, their position. The value of the assistance was almost nullified by the delay with which it was given. Let it be this...
...summer the University nines and University crews will try the tug of war together. This should be enough. For the past two years the matches between the Freshman nines of the two colleges have amounted to nothing, and the Freshman race has only made another delay at Saratoga...