Word: tracks
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...success. The approval of the Athletic Committee has been received for this scheme, but with the condition that the association pay its own expenses. The success of the event then will largely depend on the contributions of the college. This meet will be held on the new bicycle track now in construction at Cambridgeport if it is finished in time. By using this track, which is specially built for bicycle racing, the large number of accidents which has always occurred at bicycle races at New York and even at this college, it is hoped will be avoided...
...meet, it is hoped, being open only to college men and scratch races, will awake the enthusiasm which has been lacking in meets where semi-professionals competed. By next spring the Cycling Association hopes to have a team of bicycle riders which will do credit to Harvard on the track...
...Taylor, P. G., Bird '96, and Fearing '98, was appointed to ask the opinion of other colleges in regard to the formation of an intercollegiate bicycling league. Cycling has become an important branch of college athletics, but the meet last spring showed plainly that the ordinary quarter-mile track for running is not suitable for bicycle races. The league is being started with a view to having an annual meet apart from the Intercollegiate Track Athletic Games. On a proper track the men would make a much better showing, and enough different events could be formed to make...
...suspension of other contests in case of disagreement over one.- (a) Had not the five-year rowing agreement with Yale expired this year there would probably have been a boat race in 1896: Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Sept., 1895, p. 113.- (b) Had there been some standing agreement, baseball and track athletics would probably have continued...
...substitute on the 'varsity for the past three years. Is the fastest runner now playing football, tackles fairly well, but is poor in bucking the line. He was on the '96 freshman nine and the same year was substitute outfielder on the 'varsity. Last year he was on the track team. Age 22, height 5 ft. 10 in., weight...