Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ellis Ward, for six years trainer of the University of Pennsylvania crew, has resigned, owing to a difference of opinion with the regatta committee in regard to the stroke to be taught...
...junior class at Yale have decided, after much hesitation, to enter a crew in the spring regatta...
...annual Yale-Princeton foot-ball game have become the paramount athletic event, that it has, if it were simply a game of a long series and played by two colleges of a large foot-ball league! Or, to draw an analogy from college boating, what is the college regatta of the year if it is not at New London, between the two university crews of Harvard and Yale? And why is this paramount to the intercollegiate regatta rowed on Lake George or Saratoga? Because the element of chance, in winning, is less. That is one reason; and another is, that...
...season was well along in May without any practice games, except with picked nines, when a challenge was received from the Yale University nine to play a match game on regatta day, both nines to be "selected from the academic departments alone." As this was the first time Yale had shown any inclination to play Harvard, the challenge was eagerly accepted, although it was really a Greek gift, the Yale nine having been meeting with great success during the spring. At this time I find the earliest mention on record of that time-honored lie: "Vassar Female College...
...more practice games - with the "Trimountains," in which Harvard won, 23 to 11, and with the Lowells, who won 23 to 20 - and we met Yale at Worcester on the great regatta day. (In this last game it is a peculiar fact that every Harvard man was out three times...