Word: runners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale game on Thursday, Harvard will not have the slightest chance if she plays a game anything similar to that of yesterday. The men on the coaching lines seemed to think their only duty lay merely in listlessly watching the game. and giving an occasional glance toward the base runner. It was seldom that the coacher gave the base runner any advice, and it was still more seldom that the runner followed it when given...
...wild pitches. In the fourth inning Brown went in to pitch and kept Yale down fairly well. Affairs reached such a state toward the end of the third inning that the Yale captain in order to make the defeat as easy as possible for Harvard ordered a base runner whenever he reached third base, not to come in on Wood's wild pitches...
...time. Harmar, who is depended upon to take the mile run, is now very fat and heavy, but hopes to be able to get into condition before the intercollegiate games which occur on May 25. There are no new men who show any promise of ever developing into fast runners. McGuire, '90, who had quite a reputation as a runner before he came to college, but who has devoted his collegiate course to gaining high academic honors, has finally cosented, after much urging, to use his athletic abilities for the benefit of the university. He will be a valuable acquisition...
...American hurdle records; Frederick R. Westing, 100 yard champion of England, Ireland, Canada and America; Malcolm W. Ford, all-round athlete, and holder of many world jumping records; Frank L. Lambrecht, N. A. A. A. A., champion shot putter and hammer thrower; Thomas P. Conneff. champion one mile runner of England and Ireland, and five-mile champion of America; William Halpin, champion running broad jumper, and F. D. Lange, N. A. A. A. A., champion in the one mile walk and the A. A. A. champion for three miles...
...over seven hundred. The list includes some of the most famous athletes of England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, and it will be strange if several records are not-lowered. Among the men who will endeavor to break records are Westing, M. A. C., champion one hundred yards runner of the world, who will attempt to lower the present record for seventy-five yards; Copeland, M. A. C., who will try to break the record for the 250 yards hurdle race; and Donahue, the champion ice skater of the world, who will endeavor to beat the best time...