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...entirely in sympathy with the efforts of the Cycling Association in striving to make bicycle racing a distinct intercollegiate sport and we think it deserves to be congratulated upon the energetic and thorough manner in which it has arranged for this first meet...
Baseball and rowing were also active during these years. In the former sport Harvard repeatedly won; in the latter, defeated in the first six years the crews of '77, '78 and '79 made one of the brightest records in the annals of rowing...
There was no gymnasium at that time, and, in fact, no organized sport of any kind. The rowing season lasted for a few weeks only and the training for races was extremely short and light. The crews rowed in large barges. Football was played for a short time in the fall on the delta where Memorial now stands. It was open to all comers, but was only participated in by a few of the six hundred students...
...amendments to the rules of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association adopted at the meeting of delegates held on Saturday will be endorsed by those who are interested in the welfare of track and field sports. Especially gratifying is the rule that drops bicycle racing from the regular list of events at the annual meeting, and gives to this form of sport a meet of its own. As the question of making such an arrangement was discussed at some length in this column a short time ago, it is not necessary to mention again the advantages that will be gained...
...rowing committee of the University of Pennsylvania is considering the advisability of having a series of talks on rowing modeled after the Harvard football talks, in order to increase the interest in the sport among the students...