Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recently been dealt to the tennis interest ; the severest being the reduction in the number of available courts caused by the construction of the new track and diamond on Holmes field. The defeat too of our representatives at Hartford cannot fail to produce a depressing effect. If, then, this sport, on which so many undergraduates depend for the principal means of exercise, is to be maintained in our midst, every facility for its pursuit must be afforded. We therefore invite the tennis men to offer, through our columns their suggestions as to any ways in which the existing scheme...
...college teams, has lately been in the habit of selling these uniforms to anyone who desires to purchase them. The different organizations should see that this practice is stopped immediately. It has been customary for the various athletic teams of the college to wear costumes which designate one particular sport. These costumes are worn by members of the teams and one else is supposed to wear them. If, however, they are sold to every comer we shall soon see half the college out playing tennis in lacrosse caps, varsity crew jerseys and football knickerbockers. We should suppose that...
...appointment of Mr. James G. Lathrop as trainer, or master of field sports at Harvard, would undoubtedly be a step toward raising the interest of athletics at large in our college. During the time that he took an active interest in athletics, he was a prominent member of the Union Athletic club of Boston, and won many prizes in almost every description of out-door sports. Since his retirement from the track he has trained men with marked success purely from a lively interest in, and love of the sport, and the fact that his timing of records is accepted...
...play foot ball than a run across country on a pleasant afternoon for six or eight miles or, perhaps, even further. The runs at present are made purposely short in order that new men may be induced to come out and try this health giving sport. The advantage of a "slow hunt" is that all the hounds are kept together in a companionable body until the "break," making it pleasanter for those running than to allow them to scatter at will. The flyers are thus restrained and the new men and those out of perfect training are able to keep...
...club for its initial year is one of which its founders need by no means feel ashamed, and the prospects for the coming year warrant us in the belief that good work will be done, both individual and team, before the targets and at the traps. The sport is one in which many are interested, and we bespeak for the club the support of all our students. To night's meeting ought especially to be attended by eighty-eight, for a freshman director is to be chosen, an officer who ought to represent most thoroughly the shooting interest...