Word: winning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...colleges that are willing to pull in eight-oars, and to beat them, if possible, before going to England. In fact, Captain Bancroft is in favor of making our race with Oxford conditional on our beating the college eights in America. If Harvard should be so fortunate as to win the races she enters in this country, she would not go to Putney as the "champion American college crew," but as Harvard, backed by an indisputable prestige...
...their crew abroad if they beat us, outsiders would then think they really meant business; but as matters stand, their only avowed object is to beat us, and then send their crew abroad if they think fit. If they will agree to send out their men if they should win in a race with us, a race would not be a bad thing, as then the fastest crew would be sent out, which is, or should be, the main object...
...course, and, if we can judge from the number of the entries, will be well worth seeing. According to the last accounts three Freshman-sixes had entered, and several seats had been taken in the four-oared barges. It is a pity that single-scullers who have yet to win fame on the Charles are so shy in entering the Junior race. We are confident that there are men in the under classes who pulled in singles before they came to college, and have since neglected this manly sport from sheer laziness. It is understood, we trust, that...
...Smith, 4 min. 51 1/4 sec. This is the best American time, and is a branch of running which has no first-class representatives in this country, because so few turn their attention to it. A man who could do 4.50 or 4.45 every time could win every prize offered in this country for this distance, 220 yards. W. C. Wilmer, 22 7/8 sec., which is the best on record. Pole-leaping, A. Ing, 9 ft. 4 in.; best record is 9 ft. 11 in. Running broad jump, W. C. Wilmer; best record, 19 ft. 8 in., by same...
...obliged to start. Out of thirty bicycles said to be in college, surely six or eight men can be found willing to enter. Every time a man is beaten he gets a longer start in the next, and if every man perseveres he cannot fail to win a cup finally...