Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present being carried out is only initiative of the work which is to be commenced immediately after the mid-years. At present the men are put through a series of hand dumb-bell exercises and are made to run at a fast pace short distances on the running track in the gymnasium. The most important part of their work is done in the cage. Here much attention is paid to sliding bases and batting, particularly to instill confidence into the men while at the bat. The candidates are divided into squads of four men, each of which has regular hours...
Never before in the history of Yale has there been such an interest taken in field athletics. The enthusiasm awakened four years ago when the Yale field was first used has steadily increased. Instead of being at the bottom in track athletics Yale now leads all her opponents. The improvement has been a gradual one, developing a little year by year, till in '87 five first prizes were won by Yale men at Mott Haven, and at last the cherished cup became Yale's. Since that time the interest has not been allowed to lag for a moment...
...entire third floor is occupied by the gymnasium, which is one hundred and one feet long by fifty wide. It is supplied with a complete set of gymnasium apparatus, chest weights, rowing weights, rings, bars, etc. A running track is constructed, encircling the entire room nine feet above the floor, having twenty laps to a mile. The floor of the track is bedded with prepared felt covered with canvas, which gives a firm elastic footing. In the floor of the gymnasium the lines of a tennis court are inlaid in white maple. All the gymnasium apparatus is arranged...
After very careful trial, the number of candidates for the Yale freshman crew has been reduced to twenty-two. So many men presented themselves at first that it was found to be quite impracticable to keep track of them, not-withstanding the greater portion had abundant qualifications for a close competition. Finally a vigorous inspection was instituted, and after a minute comparison of the merits of the many candidates all were rejected except the following: Hodges, Oastler, Ely, R. P. Huntington, Rhodes, Isham, Aiken. Chadwick, Coates, Robbins, Childs, Rogers, Simms, Hoefier, Buck, Kenerson, Rockefeller, Judson, Bushnell, Noyes, Allen and Heyworth...
...Globe show an increase of forty per cent, at Yale in the last seven years as compared with an increase of twenty-one per cent, at Harvard. During the same period, out of the thirty-one contests between Yale and Harvard in base-ball, foot-ball, rowing and track athletics, Yale has won twenty-one times, Harvard ten. While these facts may show nothing more than a coincidence, it seems to us to be a more reasonable conclusion to draw from these facts that Yale's victories have been one of the things, at least, that have caused the greatly...