Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hares win if the hounds come in after them by a greater amount of time than the time of start and the first hound in, gets a second prize...
...throws will he allowed each contestant, and the man making the longest good throw will receive the cup. The second competition will be for accurate throwing. Goal posts are to be placed 40 yards from the scratch, the man who can throw the most goals in six tries to win, all ties to be thrown off in six additional tries. Cups are to be given to the winner in each events, and any contestant beating one hundred yards in the long throw will receive a certificate of his record It is hoped that these events will add some zest...
...regular training two eight-oared crews. This plan, it is hoped, will also be of great aid in filling the vacancies left by those who graduate next year. Great earnestness and enthusiasm are shown at Yale in the matter of rowing, and the college announces itself as determined to win the race with Harvard next June at all events...
...well to consider the plan suggested by President Lowell, in his address read at the last meeting of the association. We refer to his project of instituting class championships in the fall and winter meetings. Class flags or trophies of some sort, to be given to the class winning the most victories, would arouse a healthy class feeling. Each class would do it sutmost to bring forward all available candidates in the effort to win this trophy. This rivalry between the classes would increase the number of entries and have a direct bearing upon the success of all the meetings...
...keep up to the finish. The distance is to be limited to twenty miles, and the time limit will probably be one hour and a half. Besides the time prizes the ordinary prizes will be given. A first prize costing $3.00 to each of the hares if they win, or to the first hound in if he wins, and a second prize costing $1.00 to the first hound in even if he does not beat the hares...