Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article was written especially for the Crimson by S. deJ. Osborne '26, former manager of University track and football and at present editor of the H. A. A. News...
...Yale's track victory was by the scant margin of one third of a point, thus making the difference between the Crimson and Blue records even less that it appears at first glance. The other two major sport encounters both resulted in decisive victories. Harvard took the annual Commencement baseball series in straight games, slugging 'strength proving the chief factor in deciding the issue in favor of the Cambridge ball players. The first game which was played in New Haven was a see-saw affair, the final Crimson run being delayed until the eighth inning. The second and final game...
Consideration of the records of winter sports shows the balance all on the side of the University. For the past two years Harvard hockey and indoor track teams have won the Intercolleglate titles in these two branches of athletics. The Ellice series always closes the schedule for the Crimson skaters, and in 1926 Captain Thayer Cumings '26 led his men through two whirlwind games with the Yale puck chasers. 4 to 0 and 2 to 0 scores told the story of Harvard superiority on the ice for a season in which lack of an arena of their own greatly handicapped...
...winning the Intercollegiate Indoor track title twice from a large field of colleges, the Crimson forces scored indirect triumphs over the Blue team, which loomed each year as a titular threat. Winter minor sports honors for 1926 and 1927 have in each case gone to Yale by a margin of three sports to two. The Harvard squash and basketball players have emerged triumphant in their engagements with the Elis, while in wrestling, fencing and indoor polo the Yale grapplers, swordsmen and riders have prevailed
Doping a Harvard-Yale track meet is the hardest job imaginable. Again this year Yale goes into the meet decidedly the favorite, presumably because of its superiority in the hurdles, and jumps and because of its better balance in many of the other events, however, every one is entitled to his opinion; I believe Harvard will win on Saturday...