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...annual spring games of Yale College, Sherrill ran the 100 yards in 10 seconds. Williams, '91, ran the 220 yards hurdle race in 27 seconds, lowering the Yale record one-fifth of a second; he also tied the best Yale record for the 120 yards hurdle race, 16 2-5 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/14/1890 | See Source »

...year to carry off the honors. Ninety-two will have two more chances for victory, and though disappointed this year may look to the future with confidence. No one deserves more praise than Ninety-three. The crew showed both speed and staying power, and ought to make a creditable record at New London next month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/9/1890 | See Source »

...winners were as follows: 120 yds hurdle race, G. R. Fearing, '93, first; time 17 2-5 sec. (Best previous Harvard record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. Spring Meeting. | 5/5/1890 | See Source »

...mile run; G. Lowell, '92, first, A. M. White, '92, second; time 4m., 38 3-5 sec. (equals Harvard record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. Spring Meeting. | 5/5/1890 | See Source »

...cost; and it seems that the freshmen are likely to fall into the mistake of supposing that yelling ball is playing ball. When they come to upholding the name of the college on other grounds, they must remember that more is at stake than the record of a victory or a defeat, and that it is better for them and the college that they should be beaten playing a fair game than that they should beat by any ungentlemanly method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/5/1890 | See Source »