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...following taken from the Yale News shows that the college has hopes of winning the Mott Haven cup next spring. "The following statement in regard to the number of winners of first or second place in the inter-collegiate games last year, who are undergraduates at Yale and Harvard will to a certain extent make plain the chance each college has of winning the cup next spring. There is a reasonable probability that a winner last year, if still qualified to enter, will also be successful this year...
...athletic team which will represent Yale at Mott Haven next spring will be the strongest she has ever sent down, as there is more work being done in this branch of athletics than ever before. A desperate effort will be made to bring home the cup. The struggle between Brooks, Yale's champion runner, and Wendell Baker of Harvard, will be the grandest thing ever seen in an inter-collegiate contest of this kind. They will probably meet in the 220 and 440 yards races, in the half-mile and perhaps in the mile. Baker holds the records, but Brooks...
...tumbling various specialties will be introduced. A class in heavy dumbbells will bring out the heavier athletes of the university. After this there will be some pyramid making and then will come, the floor having been cleared by this time, the exhibition of the different organizations. The champion Mott Haven team will show its system of winter training by an exhibition of jumps hitch and kick, putting the shot, pole vault and walk...
...Mott Haven team having retired, the '86 crew will take the floor, passing 16 lb. shot with two-hand motion, and will in turn be followed by the '87 crew with light dumbbells, the '88 crew with Indian clubs, and the '89 crew in light dumbbell drill. The champion University nine will either pass the shot or go through the bar-bell drill. In absence of a regular university eleven, the '86 team will take the floor and pass a foot-ball for a few minutes till the appearance of the champion Lacrosse team, which will give an exhibition...
...represent Harvard in the coming contest for the Mott Haven Cup have been hard at work in the gymnasium since the Christmas recess. They are under Mr. Lathrop's constant care, and give promise of making one of the best teams, possibly the best, that Harvard has ever entered...