Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Running long jump, won by the University of Pennsylvania; distance...
Running high jump, won by University of Pennsylvania; height...
Hundred-yard dash, won by the University of Pennsylvania; time...
...field of college athletics. The Committee intend to award solid gold badges to First and Second places, and in every case the prize alone will be well worth the contest. The entry-book is now ready, and in the hands of Mr. H. L. GEYELIN, of the University of Pennsylvania, and already the names of prominent athletes appear on his lists. The Committee are preparing a set of Field Rules, which will be distributed before June 20. The Committee, in closing, would earnestly beg the hearty co-operation of all the athletes of the various colleges. Assuring all such that...
...John Welsh, president of the Centennial Board of Finance, has turned over the testimonial fund of $50,000, with which he was honored, to the University of Pennsylvania, to endow a "John Welsh Centennial Professorship...