Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

270 Track Athletics meet were as follows: One-mile run, won by Copeland of Cornell; time, 4 minutes 58 sec– onds; second, Van Derometer of Princeton; third, Reed of Columbia. Copeland was 14 sec– onds ahead of his nearest rival. One-hundred– yard dash, won by Nevin of Yale ; time, wt seconds; second, Potter of Cornell. Three-mile run, won by Downs of Princeton; second, Goodwin of Columbia. One-hundred-twenty– yard hurdles, won by Maxwell of Yale; time, 20! seconds; second, Marquand of Princeton; third, Rives of Harvard. Seven-mile walk, won by Eustis of Wesleyan; time, 71 minutes; second, Hubbell of Williams; third, Price of Columbia. In the following year, 1875, a committee of Saratoga citizens arranged the games, which con– sisted of ten events, and were more ambitious and successful in every way than those of the previous year. Pennsylvania made her first appearance at the intercollegiates in these games in the person of H. L. Geyelin, '77, and it was here that the red– and-blue colors of Pennsylvania were first worn in an intercollegiate contest. Amherst al o entered the running in 1875, and her team carried back three prizes: Barber, '77, taking first in the mile run in 4 minutes 44!- seconds, and second place in the half-mile, while Morrell, '77, won the three– mile run in 1 7 minutes 7 4 seconds. Of the points, Harvard, Yale, and Amherst each won