Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sprint runners are practising starting regularly every...
...inter-collegiate championship from Harvard. The Yale trainer is reported in the papers as saying that Yale will send a stronger team to Mott Haven than she has for years; and Columbia, to, has a hard working squad, bent upon gaining renown for Columbia in track athletics. Brooks, the sprint runner of Yale, intends to run this year, if we are to believe reports, and the candidates for the running high jump and the broad jump, two events in which Harvard has lost very strong men, are out in full force. In short, greater efforts than ever, if that were...
...make his way along Oxford street and through the yard at a neck or nothing pace. It need hardly be said that such unnatural speed as this is harmful to the last degree, especially since it is apt to follow closely upon the exhaustion produced by the daily sprint race to the chapel doors. Yet the student must go into this "rush," or else be marked absent at the recitation at which he is due on the hour immediately after his recitation at the museum. Some change must evidently be made out of regard to the heart-diseased students...
Baker, '86 was on the track practising sprint running yesterday afternoon...
...Dale, Jr., is writing a series of articles for the Cornell Era on Training. Candidates for the Inter-collegiate contests should consult the last one-on sprint-running and hurdling...