Word: mile
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past the entrance to the grounds. Time, 45 minutes. To go by the second route, take a Newton car at Harvard square and ride to Nonantum square, Newton; change-to car for Newtonville; change at Newtonville for Newton Centre or Highlands to Walnut street. Walk three-eighths of a mile to the grounds. Time 50 minutes
...annual fall track games will be held on Monday, October 30. The following is a list of the events: 120 yards dash, 100 yards dash, 440 yards dash, 220 yards low hurdles, 220 yards dash, 880 yards run, mile run, high jump, shot put, broad jump, pole vault and hammer throw. No entry fee will be charged, but five competitors will be required for each of the track events and four for the field events...
...this year. The team is very much strengthened by the return of D. Grant M. S., who was absent last winter, but still has one more year to represent Harvard according to the intercollegiate rules. Although he injured his ankle last spring, he has since run one-mile and five-mile races in his best form. It is too early yet to make any estimate concerning the Freshman candidates for the track team, but there seems to be some very promising material, especially among the distance men. There are a good many men now with the Freshman football squad...
...Preliminary work was light at first but was quickly increased as the week advanced. Morning work consisted of practicing starts, dumb-bell drills, mile runs, and on Thursday tackling the dummy. In the afternoon practice running was omitted, but on Thursday there was the first line-up for breaking through. On Friday two elevens were lined up against each other to break through on kicks. Sawin, Daly and Hallowell kicked. There was no practice on Saturday afternoon, but the squad was divided into four elevens, which ran through six single plays. The training table begins on Thursday...
...Yale, completed the arrangements under which competition for the new cup will take place. The constitution was revised, but few changes were made. The cup will become the permanent property of the college which wins it five times beginning with the meet ion Cambridge next May. A two-mile race was added and the order of events was altered. The proposed rule or excluding from competition any student who had competed for any other college before entering Harvard or Yale was discussed, but was rejected as being unnecessarily severe...