Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrange a road race with Yale proved unsuccessful, but we see no reason why the plan now proposed should not be heartily entered into. Intercollegiate bicycling has heretofore been confined to the two-mile race at Mott Haven, and so has held a comparatively unimportant place. Bicycling as a sport deserves a much more prominent place in college athletics because of the skill it requires and the number of men interested in it. The plan proposed will go far towards raising its standing. The Bicycle Club deserves a word of praise for its energy. It is one of the most...
...prizes is absurdly overdone. Art, learning, politics and amusements are deluged with shows, races, competitions and prizes. Life is becoming one long scramble of prize winning and pot hunting, and examination, stereotyped into a trade, is having the same effect on education that betting has on every healthy sport, Parents governments and colleges combine to stimulate competitive examinations and the mark system...
Permit me, through your columns, to approve the suggestion made in last Saturday's issue in regard to the hare and hounds runs. I see no reason why this sport could not be carried on during the early spring, as the roads are not necessarily always bad. Although, properly speaking, it is a fall sport, yet I think that runs could be held to great advantage in the spring. These runs, providing that the H. A. A. saw fit, would doubtless be a benefit to the long-distance runners of the Mott Haven team. Of course...
...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 and the New Amateur Athletic Union. Both of these associations have held several well-contested field meetings during the year, and the results of the meetings go far towards proving conclusively that the American athletes...
...melancholy state of things when only a few men present themselves as candidates for the freshman lacrosse team. Here is one of the best opportunities for the freshmen to enter into a healthy and pleasurable sport, yet, notwithstanding all the inducements offered, few men take advantage of them. There are even yet some things that freshmen do not know, and it is a kindness to point out to them that the freshman teams of today will be the 'varsity teams two or three years hence. If our freshman teams are poor, we need have no hope for future intercollegiate victories...