Word: tracks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Walter L. Camp, Yale '80, is writing an article on track athletics at Yale, for the Century...
With the close of the present term at the Christmas recess, Harvard leaves off an old and begins a new athletic season. During the next few months crews, nines, and track athletes will be carefully trained for the outdoor work of the spring, and everything will be done by the management of each organization to make its work successful. Of this we feel assured. But there are requisites of success other than the conscientious work of captains and managers, necessary as these are. Men must be found who are willing to train earnestly and long, else we cannot even hope...
...past, and for this reason it is urgent that the names of her team should be the first inscribed upon the new cup. Furthermore our failure to win in football puts an added responsibility upon the Mott Haven team. It is for them to maintain Harvard's superiority in track athletics and to bring back to her some of the athletic prestige which she has lost. There is thus a double duty upon all men who believe themselves eligible for the Mott Haven team to appear at the meeting tonight in the trophy room of the gymnasium...
...brother of W. C. Dohm, Princeton's fast sprinter, is just now talked of as the coming man among amateur short distance runners. In private recently he ran 100 yards in 11seconds, and made a quarter in 55 1-2. He will make his appearance on a public track next spring...
Cornell in her management of football has inaugurated a plan entirely different from that pursued in the other branches of athletics. Whereas base ball, rowing, and track athletics are directly controlled by managers, elected by directors appointed by each class, football is governed entirely by a small society called the Cornell Foot Ball Association...