Word: starting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LACROSSE. - The following men must be in front of Memorial Hall at six o'clock, all ready to start for Ithaca: Sand, Scott, Starr, Woods, Morrison, F. Outerbridge, Leighton, Beecher, Burley, Ames, S. Outerbridge and Horne. The team leaves the Union station...
...under "Laws of Athletics," says "no competitor shall be allowed to start without the proper number." This will not only be strictly enforced, but the competitor will not be admitted through the gate to the grounds unless his number is pinned...
...Ninety-eight crew has put it out of the question for them to enter the class races. In rowing, however, the three upper classes are fortunately to settle the championship which in the case of baseball was left unclaimed. The change in arrangements this year which brings the start of the race where the finish used to be, and vice versa, will hardly be acceptable to spectators, however much it may benefit the crews. The various boat houses and the Boston bank of the river formerly gave many people a reasonably convenient means of viewing the finish, which it will...
...first event was the 100 yards dash in which four Harvard and only two Yale men qualified for the final heat. Bremer and Bigelow were unfortunate in being set back for a false start and neither could make up this penalty. Yale men put their faith on Richards, who won both the dashes in the Mott Haven games two years ago. He did not disappoint them, but took the lead about half way down the course and won from Redpath and Gonterman in an exciting finish. The trial heats in the high hurdle race left only Munroe to represent Harvard...
...quarter mile run furnished one of the best races of the day. Bingham took the lead at the start, closely followed by Marshall, while Vincent was almost the last man. He gradually worked his way through, however, and, on entering the stretch, was on even terms with the first Yale man, while Marshall had passed Bingham. The two leaders ran neck and neck for the last fifty yards, Bingham winning by a few feet from Marshall, with Vincent third. The mile run was a disappointment to Harvard. Morgan set a slow pace for three laps, with Coolidge at his elbow...