Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach R. F. Herrick '90, who this year is in complete charge of the University crews, supervised practice yesterday afternoon for the first time this spring. Coach Herrick has just arrived in the East after spending the winter visiting friends on the Pacific Coast. From now on he will direct the work regularly every day, which up to this time has been conducted by Coach Haines...
...number of men taking part in athletics in the universities of these two countries a year ago, and it was found that, in proportion to the size, the University of Toronto led. This is explained by the fact that in Canada every child is trained to live outdoors in winter, and so it naturally follows that when grown up he continues to take part in winter sports. He has become a proficient skater, or snowshoer, or ski-runner, and when he goes to college he enters into these sports...
...their proficiency has been seen by those American universities which have begun in recent years to compete with them. They also have contests in snowshoeing,--long cross-country walks which try the endurance of a man more than any other sport. This is the easiest of the three winter sports to learn, but it requires more hardihood and more endurance than either of the others...
...prominent ski-runner at Dartmouth founded a club there. For two years he shouldered all the burdens and took upon himself the task of getting the men to ski or snowshoe. How well he succeeded may be seen by the fact that the next year, Dartmouth held a Winter Carnival in which there were races and jumping competitions on skis and snowshoes. This competition was held only between members of Dartmouth and a few neighboring colleges. It proved so great a success, however, that in the following year, men from colleges all over the country were invited. It was made...
These sports have spread to a considerable number of colleges throughout the country, but, of course, only those colleges can take them up which are fa- vored with long cold winters. This necessarily bars the colleges in the south. Among the colleges to take up these winter sports are Cornell and Wisconsin. They have not been so well organized in the former university, but the latter has made them the big feature of the winter months...