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...close of the mid-years, but nothing has as yet been done towards forming a university tug-of-war team. Within the past month some discussion has been carried on through the columns of the CRIMSON. Many of the prominent tug-of-war men have protested against the sport as dangerous...
...this the men ought to undertake a regular system of exercise, just as much as runners or jumpers and, as we understand, this was the method of training proposed by the H. A. A. for this year. With such a change a great part of the objection to the sport would be removed. Instead, then, of only one man's appearing as a candidate, there ought to be a larger number than ever before. Harvard has been famous in past years for her tug-of-war team, and in her last year of membership in the intercollegiate league ought...
...Cornell, wonderfully rapid as have been the development of football and track athletics, boating continues to loom up pre-eminently as the representative sport. The Cornell navy came into existence in 1871, when there were only about 400 men in the university against its present 1400. The next year a crew was sent to Spring field and met defeat. Although creeping up in place, defeat fodowed for two years, until 1873, when a turning point was reached. In that year Cornell's freshmen defeated Harvard, Brown and Princeton, and the 'varsity won its first great race against twelve competitors. Both...
...annual bicycle race is desirable, especially at this time, for other reasons besides the general benefit it would give both colleges in increasing the interest in a healthy and desirable out-door sport. In addition to this it would strengthen the inducements for a dual league. At this time when the sentiment of both colleges seems to be steadily growing in support of a dual league, a favorable answer to the Bicycle club's challenge would be another step toward attaining the desired end. It would add another bond to the common athletic interests of both colleges. If the principle...
...another and more important matter the President has disregarded the advice of this committee. He recommends that "all practice should be at home and only with other organizations within the same college; that in each sport there should be one, two, or three intercollegiate contests, the interest of which should not be lessened by any inferior competitions either before or afterwards." This means that the university nine and eleven should have two or three matches a year with Yale. and no other games except with second and class teams. The reasons for this restriction are that the present training...