Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics mouth taking the mile in 4 minutes 58! seconds, Yale the high hurdles in I St seconds, Columbia the high jump with 5 feet 4 inches, and Pennsyl– vania the broad jump with a leap of 18 feet 3!– inches. Harvard and Yale, who were each destined to capture one of the two " Mott Haven '' cups that have since been awarded "to the college winning the intercollegiate games the greatest number of times in fourteen years," were quite snowed under during the first few years of the intercollegiate games by Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and the smaller colleges of New England. Har– vard did not win a first place at the regular inter– collegiates until 1879, and at Yale the apathy to track athletics was so effective that no one was entered after the games in 1876 until 1880. By that time, however, track athletics had begun to be pursued with such enthusiasm at Cambridge that it was not until six years later that Yale developed a team that could meet her natural rival on even terms. The Harvard track men of those days had one advantage over their brethren in New Haven in that their field was near at hand. Jarvis Field, where the early running was done, is only a stone's throw from the dormitories in the Harvard Yard, and the men could leave their lectures at ten o'clock, for example, take their runs, bathe,