Word: scratches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...communication in yesterday's CRIMSON, suggesting that the boat club should award prize cups to the winners in the fall scratch races, should receive the attention of the boat club. It seems to us that the request is justifiable, and that the cups should be awarded, as in former years. We cannot imagine why there should have been this delay. Can it be that the boat club does not intend to give any prizes? It is, to be sure, a matter of some importance, and we feel that the boat club ought to allow the winners trophies of the anniversary...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The custom of the H. U. B. C. to give cups to the winners in the fall scratch races, seems to have been given up this year. It seems an especial pity that this should be so, because, as every one knows, the scratch races made up a part of the 250th anniversary celebration and so, to those who have no other trophy of the great anniversary, the cups would be of double value. Therefore I suggest that the H. U. B. C. get the cups at once and also that they have the cups - as prizes...
About twenty students at the boat-house yesterday morning saw two close races between a graduate and an undergraduate crew. The race was rowed over the regular scratch-race course, from the old coal wharf to the lower bridge. The following is the make-up of the two crews...
...scratch races were highly successful, and served as a fitting opening to a day devoted to the undergraduates. The exercises in Sanders Theatre, which are commented upon below, were highly successful, and the number present was almost unprecedented. The foot-ball game, in reality a game of "wallowing," was played with pluck by both teams. The steady play of the men was especially noticeable when it is remembered that fast running was out of the question, good tackling extremely difficult, and sure kicking absolutely impossible. A steady down-pour of rain can hardly conduce to success in any athletic contest...
SECOND DAY. - SCRATCH RACES. - EXERCISES IN SANDERS THEATRE. - FOOT-BALL...