Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics in the Colleges 2 77 as Nevin, '76, Maxwell, '75, and Trumbell, '76, and there had been cross-country running of a desultory sort from a time as far back as 1869. In that year teams from the junior and sophomore classes ran a four-mile race through the snow in 34 minutes and 54 seconds, and in 1870 there was a three-mile race with dollars for prizes; but the new sport did not get the grip on the Yale undergraduates that it did on other New Eng– land colleges. "Foot races," observes the editor of one of the Yale magazines of those days, "are, after all, very old-fashioned affairs, and are nowhere in comparison with the exhilarating game of base– ball." In spite of the success of Maxwell, Trumbell, and Nevin - the latter, with typical Yale pluck and ingenuity, won the hundred in 1874 by catching the tape with his hand when he was a yard away from it-Yale sent no men to the intercollegiate during the three years im– mediately following the formation of the Inter– collegiate Athletic A sociation, and up to the year 1886 Harvard continued to win the Mott Haven cup each year, with Columbia second and Yale a poor third. Among the individual who did what was done in those years for the honor of the Blue, Brooks, '85, was of the most famous. T. DeWitt Cuyler was another of these individual stars. Mr. Cuyler was sent down to run the mile in the spring of 1880. Mr. Evart Wendell was