Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of California is very anxious to send a team of track athletes on to meet some of the larger eastern college teams this spring. Overtures have already been made to Harvard and the authorities have the matter under advisement...
Twenty-one men responded to the call for candidates for the Yale track athletic team from the three upper classes on Monday. The members of last year's team are expected out before this week is over. For the present the men are put through light work in the gymnasium every afternoon, and when the remainder of the candidates have reported the men will be divided into separate squads for out-door runs and work inside, accordingly as they are practicing for long or short distance runs...
Fifty-four men presented themselves on Thursday in response to Captain Hickok's call for candidates for the track athletic team from the freshman classes. The remaining candidates for the team will be called out on Monday, January 28. Twenty-nine members of last year's team are still in college, and if several good sprinters can be developed from the new material, Yale's track athletic team this year should be a good...
...active season in track athletics will date from today. There have been a number of men training with Mr. Bryan before this but not enough to make up a satisfactory team. Yesterday afternoon, acting on Harvard's example, a meeting of all possible candidates was held, at which addresses were given by several prominent alumni. Hereafter work will be carried on earnestly and steadily. The question of a dual meeting with Princeton, proposed by Pennsylvania, remains unsettled. Pennsylvania, however, fears that Princeton will refuse to meet her, on the ground that representation on the teams should be strictly collegiate, instead...
...never was a time when the interference of the higher powers, so seldom exercised at sensible Yale, was less called for in the general athletic affairs of the University than at present. The whole trend of the athletic policies is toward moderation. Training for the baseball nine and the track team, generally well under way by this time, will not begin for another month or more. The base-ball management has decided to do without professional aid in coaching. Crew work was never as moderate as at present. The athletic problem seems to be settling itself to a certain extent...