Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Unless there is a sudden change in the weather, Mr. Lathrop expects to use the track on Holmes Field next Monday. Last year the team was not able to practice on the track till March 29, so the work may even now get started earlier this season. The vacation, however, comes at an unfortunate time, and it may be necessary for some of the most promising men to cut short their recess, though no one will be expected to stay in Cambridge all the time...
...hoped to get the men out on Holmes Field yesterday, and the track was carefully raked and rolled. The snow has put it in very poor condition again, however, and it can hardly be used this week. In the meantime the chest-weight and dumb-bell drills will continue but there will be no more indoor hurdling and less running on the board track...
There is an unusual amount of interest in track athletics at Columbia this year. Almost all of last year's crack bicycle squad are still in college, and sixty men are in training for the track team...
...Morse '99 won the high jump at 6 ft. 1 in. and F. H. Bigelow '98 won second place from scratch in the 50 yds. dash, which was won by Dyer of Yale (7 ft) in 5 2-5s. On account of the narrowness of the track Harvard withdrew her team from the triple team race which had been arranged with Yale and U. of P. and the race was won by Yale by a narrow margin...
Under the title "The College Athlete," a new illustrated monthly magazine will appear April 1, devoted entirely to athletics in the colleges and preparatory schools. The first number will contain the following articles: A History of the Intercollegiate One Hundred Yard Dash Record, Illustrated; Football in the Fifties; The Track Team Captains of '97; Athletic Outlook at the University of Wisconsin; Athletics at the University School, Cleveland, Ohio. The last named is to be the first of an illustrated series which will comprise articles on Lawrencevillle, Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, and other preparatory schools prominent in athletics...