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NOTES.The freshmen made a remarkably good showing all through, though they won no event except the fencing. They had fourteen entries, a record which evinces a determination to make '86 a notable class in Harvard athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 3/19/1883 | See Source »

...record for general excellence in the two-hand vault was: Morison, 7 1/2; Denniston, 6; Bachelder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 3/19/1883 | See Source »

...betting circles, odds of 7 to 2 being offered on her before the start. The Cambridge crew were fifty pounds heavier than Oxford, but the latter pulled in better form, rowing forty to the minute from start to finish. The race ended in a snow storm. This makes the record of victories 22 to 17 in favor of Oxford, and one "dead heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/16/1883 | See Source »

...doubtful whether the distance made in putting the shot in a gymnasium ever counts as a record, as the ball is covered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 3/12/1883 | See Source »

...second of Yale's winter meetings was held Saturday. '83 won the tug-of-war from '84 by three inches after a close struggle. The other events were: vaulting, in which the record made was 6 ft. 7 in.; horizontal bar; standing high jump, won by Brooks, '85, 4 ft. 7 1/4 in.; rope climbing; high kick, 8 ft. 5 in.; running high jump, also won by Brooks, 5 ft. 1/2 in.; fencing; light-weight sparring; closing with an exhibition of sparring between W. C. Camp and H. Knapp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/12/1883 | See Source »