Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gibson of last year's team will make a good record in throwing the hammer. Davis, '91, is a very fast man for the bicycle race, and will stand a very good show of winning at Mott Haven. He needs training and experience in turning sharp corners of a track. In the tug-of-war we stand as good a chance as ever before; although we have lost Easton, Balch, '88, will be able to fill his place. In the high jump, Page, of Pennsylvania, will probably enter and again carry off the honors. Wright, L. S., winner...
Quite a number of improvements have been made during the fall. The track has been put in condition, a new row of chest-weights has been put in position, and new mattresses have been provided. Down stairs a dressing room has been built for the use of the crew, and the number of shower baths has been increased. The tank which was put in last fall for the use of the crew, and which proved such a valuable substitute for the hydraulics, has been considerably improved this season. Last year, owing to the peculiar construction of the tank, the water...
...that the football season is over, public attention is turned to rowing, baseball and track athletics. In the first named branch of athletics, much activity is being shown, owing to the fine weather which has prevailed here for the past week. The candidates for the University crew number eighteen at present, and it is expected that this number will be considerably augmented when the semi-annual examinations are over. Captain Stevenson has had a crew upon he water almost every day since the Thanksgiving recess, and will continue to do so until obliged by inclement weather...
...were not this sport one of the few in which the New Haven institution as yet makes no pretensions to expertness. The great cricketing college is the University of Pennsylvania, which is very easily first in it. The laurels of base-ball, foot-ball, boating, tennis, or field and track athletics may pass from one institution to another during successive years, but no American college meets Pennsylvania on the wicket with much prospect of coming off victor. Haverford, Columbia and Harvard, however, often put fine elevens in the field, and it would probably give a great impulse...
...purpose not directly conducive to that end. The Athletic Association could not afford to undertake the expense of flooding Holmes Field, and would not be justified in doing so. If it is ascertained that Holmes can be flooded this winter without damage to the turf or the track, it would be an excellent thing for the college to flood it. It would certainly give the fellows a much needed opportunity for a capital form of exercise. But instead of the Athletic Association taking the matter in hand, would it not be much better for those especially interested to form...