Word: haven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 30. Yale University voted to-night to sustain E. P. Livingstone in his challenge to Goddard, Harvard's single sculler. Previously, Yale University Boat Club refused to entertain Goddard's challenge as to the University, and Livingstone's challenge is therefore personal. - Herald...
...challenge from Cornell was read, and all present favored accepting it providing they would row at New Haven, as it would be impossible for us to row at Owasco Lake should we go to England; moreover, it is the custom for the challenged party to have the choice of place...
...relative merits of fifteens and elevens. Views and arguments were exchanged, and Yale wrote down our reasons for preferring fifteen men to eleven, and agreed to present them to the College. We absolutely refused to play with less than fifteen, and until the matter has been settled in New Haven, no thoughts of a game will be entertained. The meeting then adjourned. Mr. Terry, of Amherst, was in Springfield to make arrangements for a game. The 9th of November was mentioned as the date, and Boston the place for the game. Amherst will play fifteen men, and four touch-downs...
...wishes are that his successors may, for many generations, follow out as nearly as possible the admirable example of a captain set by F. W. Thayer. To Tyng the College extends her warmest praise, for his pluckiness in facing Ernst's swift delivery with his broken finger; at New Haven he appeared as a mountain of strength to infuse confidence into what Yale regarded as a forlorn hope, and New Haven knows full well how successful he was. Ernst demonstrated by his effective pitching that the loss of Tyng in the second game was the sole cause of Yale...
...stroke, which contrasted strongly with the splashing stroke of the Yale crew, went up to 38 to the minute, and kept it up to the beginning of the last half-mile, when they slackened to 37, which was their rate when they crossed the line. The men from New Haven pulled a plucky race, and stuck to their work manfully, though they could not have had any hopes of winning after the first mile of the regatta. They came in 44 2/5 sec. behind the Harvard crew, but even then their time (21 min. 29 sec.) beats Yale's winning...