Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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NOTHING makes the University more interesting to graduates who come back here after several years' absence than the preservation of athletic trophies and records. Any one who has visited the English universities, and seen the tablets and flags with the names of crews for many years past, will remember with what interest he saw on the long roll of oarsmen men who afterwards became famous in almost every walk of life. Harvard, in this respect, is sadly lacking, one reason being that our athletic prominence extends no farther back than half a generation; but it is necessary to make...
...year. We were glad to notice that the game of Saturday was an improvement on the Yale game last year, both in the brutality in the hostile eleven and in the disposition to quarrel, and we hope that this spirit may direct our future contests with Yale. With a record of six games played and only two defeats, we think the Football Team need not be discouraged, but may look forward to a time when Harvard shall again be champion of the country, as she is now of Canada...
...This record goes to Harvard, having been made by a Harvard representative...
...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...