Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were beginning to take place regularly twice a week. The direction and supervision of the runs were under the charge of the captain of the Mott Haven team who was more than anxious for the success and prosperity of the club because it helped to develop new men for track athletics. There must be some head to start the interest in Hare and Hounds this year as there was last, otherwise fellows who are interested in that sport will be at a loss to know what to do, where to meet, etc. I should think it would be a good...
...wish to call the attention of all men who possess any kind of athletic ability to the notice of the H. A. A. in another column. This year it is the duty of every loyal Harvard man who is worth anything on the track or field to take hold with a will and help his college win back the Mott Haven cup. Last year, after seven years of continuous victory, we lost the cup to Yale's exceptionally strong team. Only the most earnest and strenuous efforts can this year restore Harvard to the position she so long held...
...conscious of athletic ability would come out and help on the team. Where a man does his best for the honor of his college, he shows an honorable thing, whether he himself succeed or fail. If every athletic man would come out and work, the standard of our track athletes would certainly be raised. The freshmen are specially urged to enter their class meeting. A good freshman athlete is worth more to the college than those in the upper classes, for he will be able to represent his college for at least four years. The Athletic Assocition looks...
...till a player had to be carried away from previous contact with it. These things were all owing to the gross negligence of the managers; but with every precaution, the ground is dangerous and unfit to play on: it is covered with cinders, full of holes, has a running track and a base-ball diamond on it, and above all, is absurdly small. Every probability points to some one being seriously hurt there in future games; and this being so, is practice so valuable to us as to make us run the risk of crippling our best men, even...
There is rumor of a new grand stand to be erected on the field at Yale, which shall command a view of the track...