Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spinning is the latest Yale sport...
...secured within easy distance of the university and the club would become thoroughly representative of the college. To be a success it should keep these two objects in view; the one, to form a team for competition; the other to give advantages for the practice of a capital sport to a large number of men, whoar physically or otherwise incapable of joining in base ball, foot ball or track athletics. Both these objects can better be secured by getting a range, (there are several,) nearer the university than Walnut Hill, where we believe the club proposes to shoot because...
There are altogether too many of our students who pass their four years either without any muscular exercise at all, or at best spend a few hours a week at tennis or some other sport which, though excellent as a means of obtaining fresh air, yet fails to furnish that training for the muscles of the whole body which is absolutely required if a man wishes to find himself thoroughly fitted for the strains which his system is sure to undergo in later life. Let every member of the freshman class present himself to Dr. Sargent for examination...
...Lacrosse interest was represented at the recent convention at Staten Island, and Yale sent a team to New York to compete for the Oelrich cup in Saturday's tournament. Quite a great deal of interest has been manifested in the sport and a strong effort was made to carry the trophy to New Haven. Yale met with the University of New York in the first drawing...
...number of students interested in the formation of a gun club held an informal meeting last evening and appointed a committee to find suitable grounds for rifle and trap shooting. A meeting of all those interested in the sport will be held next week, if the report of the committee is favorable...