Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE is an article on "The Race, and Why Yale Lost It," in the "Atlantic" for September...
...Fall Class Races will probably be rowed in barges, instead of in shells, in order to insure a race in spite of rough water...
...Crew and the Nine have added two more to the long list of Harvard's victories. At New London the former gave a pretty exhibition of their stroke, in a so-called race with Yale; at Providence the latter played and won one of the most creditable contests on record. The remarkable manner in which, by steadiness and pluck, Harvard won the last of the games for the championship, is too well known to need further comment; it is not to our past achievements, but to our future athletic interests that we direct our attention at the beginning of another...
UPON the Crew in particular we would urge the necessity of immediate and energetic action. Our success in the past three races must not be taken as a criterion of success in the future. We have probably lost all but one of our last year's crew, and men who have been long associated with our boating interests are now no longer connected with the University. We have plenty of good raw material; but Yale's experience has testified that the moulding of raw material into an efficient crew is no easy task. Such a task is ours this year...
JUDGING only from the reports that have come to us through the daily newspapers, one would think that the chances of Harvard winning the approaching race are not very good. We are happy, however, to be able to state that the facts in the case do not warrant such a conclusion. Yale, to be sure, has a much better crew in some respects than that of last year. The men are heavier, taller, and row in better form; but they are all new men except three, - a fact greatly in our favor, and one that superficial writers in making their...