Word: tape
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rather easily in 10 1-5 sec., with Vredenburgh of the same college second. Sherrill took the second heat in a canter in 10 1-2 sec., and Robinson of Yale won the thrid heat in 10 4-5 sec. The final heat was exceedingly close. Sherrill breasting the tape about one yard ahead of Cary in 10 1-5 sec.; Robinson of Yale was third. Vredenburgh won the trial for second men in 10 2-5 seconds...
...distance will be seven miles. Every competitor must be on the scratch ready to start by 4.30 sharp. The handicaps will be announced at the tape...
...communication published in yesterday's CRIMSON appears to us to take a view of the dual league question which is theoretically admissible, but does not take into consideration the actual facts. Our correspondent is mistaken in writing,- "Without any agreement or any red tape we have a league de facto." Unfortunately, we have no league in any sense of the word. In the present athletic crisis we need some definite understanding with Yale assuring annual contests between the two colleges. We cannot afford to withdraw finally from the Intercollegiate Athletic association without making some provision for future contests...
...presence of a large class who believe in no league at all. I am so impressed by their arguments (which I think have not appeared in print) that I venture to ask a few lines of your space to recapitulate them in. Without any agreement or any red tape we have a league de facto. Whatever contests we undertake now will be simply matters of sport. The colleges will be (or ought to be) gentlemenly enough to conduct games like gentlemen: that is without professionals on their teams and without the miserable disputes incident to leagues. The only argument...
...seem a small matter at best, but I see no advantage in a dual league except a trifling assurance that gentlemen ought not need nor ask for. If Yale and Harvard cannot hold games without red tape and cumbrous regulations they ought to "quit." The example of the English universities ought to put us to shame. Every feeling but a desire for good sport and fair play ought to be banished from our athletic fields. Since one conference has resulted in a majestic secret, I repeat, I believe more than half the college would favor no league but a tacit...