Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Manager Turner of the Princeton track team has announced that Princeton will send a team of four men to compete in the Olympic games at Athens. The men who will go are Captain Garrett, Jr., '97, entered in the shot, broad jump, and discus throwing; Colfelt '99, in the 100 and 400 metres runs and in other sprints; Lane '97, in the sprints; and Tyler '97, in the pole vault. The faculty has given the men permission to start on Saturday...
...recent action of the Intercollegiate Track Athletic Association in arranging for bicycle races separate from the regular field meet has given bicycling an impetus, and more systematic work in this branch of track athletics has resulted. The university squad now numbers about twenty-three men who have been in training since the middle of January. Up to three weeks ago the work consisted of daily exercise in the gymnasium but since that time the candidates have been able to do outside riding until the recent snow storm. This has handicapped the team considerably as they were just beginning...
There is no need of this being a hardship, even in muddy or sloppy weather; for when the streets are not in fit condition for running, the track behind the Gymnasium may be used. It is always open to students desiring exercise...
...ninety men now in training for the track athletic team are being coached by Trainer Murphy and Captain Sheldon. The long distance runners are taking out door exercise in squads, and the bicycle men take a sharp ride each day. There is some promising material among the distance runners. The association will send a team of four men to compete in the relay race at the games of the Holy Cross College at Worcester on March...
...RUMFORD, Conductor.LACROSSE.- Beginning with Monday, all candidates for the team will be required to come out more regularly, at 4 o'clock. On rainy days a long run will be taken on the track. New men should come out at once...