Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...various athletic organizations in the college. In 1850 the first University Crew was formed, and in 1850 they rowed their first race with Yale. In 1857 the crew first introduced systematic training. The University Nine was organized in 1863, and ten years later, in 1873, foot-ball and track athletics were introduced. Since then we have been given the lacrosse and cricket teams...
...gymnasium, under Capt. Burnett. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, work is confined to practice in the cage, the men going in from 3 to 5 o'clock in the two former days, and at 2 o'clock on Saturday. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the chest weights and running track are brought into requisition for the hour, from...
...Storrs who has graduated. In addition to these men, Beck, Merritt and Souther, '84, Cutler, '85 and Cowles, '86, new men, are candidates. It is expected that before the week is over five more will enter, so that there will be two eights training. The men appear on the track at 10 o'clock each morning and run a certain distance, to be changed each day, and at half-past ten will begin work on the rowing weights...
...correspondent of the Yale Record argues forcibly in favor of inter-collegiate athletic games between Yale and Harvard, "at which the winners in Yale's games will meet Harvard's champions. This meeting would at once raise track athletics to the prominence which they deserve, and the Harvard-Yale athletic games would rank with the Harvard ball game and the Princeton foot-ball match. The expenses of the meeting would be more than covered by the gate-money, and the experiment would involve no financial danger. The question at least deserves a thorough discussion in both the papers...
...cage, the candidates being formed into two squads, one of which goes in at two, the other at three, and both of which are under the immediate supervision of Capt. Crocker. At four o'clock every afternoon both squads go through the chest weights, run on the gymnasium track, etc. Following is the list of candidates: Messrs. H. T. Allen, '86; Appleton, '84; Beaman, '85; Crocker, '85 (capt.); Follansbee, '85; A. Hamlin, '84; Hoyt, '85; Keep, '84; Lovering, '84; Lowell, '83; Phillips, '86; Smyth, '83; J. A. White, '84; S. E. Winslow, '85. With four exceptions, all the above have...