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...This record goes to Harvard, having been made by a Harvard representative...
...often become tedious, owing to the large number of trials required, leaving the afternoon entirely free for the running and walking races, which called forth a much larger assemblage of spectators. Wendell, '82, succeeded in winning the 100-yards dash in 10 1/3 sec., thus bettering the American College record at that distance, held formerly by Mr. H. H. Lee, of the University of Pennsylvania, who was credited with 10 1/5 sec. at the Intercollegiate Sports in 1878. Wendell also won the 220-yards in 25 2/5 sec.; Murray, of McGill, coming in a good second...
...slipped and nearly fell, giving his contestants at least six yards the advantage of him. He caught the leader, however, only about five yards from the tape, F. A. Thompsen (formerly of Harvard, '82) finishing a good second. Thompsen also took second prize in the hammer, with a record of 81 ft. 11 1/2 in.; and in the hop, step, and jump, with 40 ft. 9 in. to his credit. E. E. Merrill, the champion amateur walker of America, at one and three miles, started at scratch in the 2-mile (handicap) walk, but being over-handicapped, as well...
APPENDED will be found a comparative table of records made at this year's fall meetings of the seven colleges mentioned in the table. Neither Harvard nor Princeton will hold any field meeting this fall, so that their records cannot be added to the table. The Columbia records at the 100-yards, 220-yards, 1/4-mile, and 1-mile runs, and the mile-walk, cannot be fairly compared with the performances at the other colleges, as the former were all made by men who had more or less handicap given them. We have omitted the records at the hammer from this...
...table of English Coll. records, the Hurdle Race record should be credited to C. H. Jackson of Oxford, with a record of 16 seconds, made at Oxford, Nov. 14, 1865, instead of to the 4 gentlemen mentioned as having records of 16 2-5 seconds...