Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of desirable athletes chose to come out and practice. This was a great mistake. The simple principles of lacrosse do very much to perfect a player in the points requisite for foot-ball, while they give him a test of speed and endurance necessary for track athletics. One of the most brilliant and successful players of last year's Princeton team owes his preeminence in dodging to his lacrosse training. Princeton has already waked up to the necessity of spring training for her foot-ball men, and the papers are urging them to take up lacrosse...
...which was crowded with passengers, was not stopped in accordance with the law, and suddenly the horses got beyond the control of the driver, and made a dash forward. As a locomotive was approaching under a fair rate of speed, the gates, one on each side of the track, were closed across the street, but the horses dashed through the gate on the Cambridge side, tearing it from the hinges, and dragging the car after them. The car stopped exactly across the track. The engineer and fireman of the locomotive also saw the danger, and, reversing the steam and applying...
...those interested in bicycling, and it seems to us that such meetings are very desirable. Apart from the direct benefit it will do bicycling at Harvard it will remove from the Athletic Association the inconvenience of having the two-mile race and the practice for it on the track at Jarvis. We understand that arrangements have been made so that those entering the races can practice at Beacon Park...
...Charles-river Railway Company intend to lay 1000 feet of track on North avenue, above their present location at Porter's station...
...candidates for the freshman nine practice in the cage, and use the chest-weights, running track, etc., on alternate days...