Word: tracking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
News that the Athletic authorities of the University have reconsidered the stand which they took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track...
...slow track, the Exeter team defeated the Freshman track men by the score of 66 3-5 to 41 2-5 at Exeter Saturday afternoon. F. W. Waterman of Exeter proved to be the high point winner, equalling the Exeter record of 22 seconds in the 220-yard dash. For the Freshmen J. A. McCarthy, R. S. Whitney and B. Wharton starred...
Entries for the annual spring track handicap meet close at six o'clock this evening. Any member of the University who has taken a strength test is eligible to compete in the carnival, which will begin promptly at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Entry books are posted at the Locker Building, Leavitt & Peirce's, and the Freshman dormitories...
...with regret that we learn that the Athletic Association has decided against a training table for the track men. While appreciating the circumstances which led them to take this stand we cannot entirely agree with their conclusions...
...only what is good for him without a training table. It is obvious, however, that his chances of keeping a wholesome diet are greater when his food is specially prepared than when he merely eats around Cambridge. Furthermore, while track men do not need team work in the same sense as baseball and crew, they will benefit by the moral effect of being thrown together. To be successful they should talk track, eat track, and live track. Our team has an excellent opportunity of winning the intercollegiate meet. Any step that may hurt those chances is poor economy...