Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics cider which was given that year to the victorious class, and which every victorious class since then has 1ugged off to an innocuous bacchanal in the gymnasium. Williams, Amherst's traditional rival, was somewhat slower in getting her track athletics well under way, but there was much interest in the sport there as well as at the other small New England colleges; and finally, on November 23, 1886, delegates from Amherst, Williams, Brown, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Trinity, and Tufts met at the Quincy House in Boston, and unanimously agreed that a New England intercollegiate athletic association should be formed. Another meeting was held later in the winter, a constitution, in the main the same as that of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, was adopted, and the first outdoor meet was he]d the following spring. The general feeling among the New England colleges at this time is pretty adequately expressed in the following editorial, which was printed in the A nzherst Student, De– cember 4, 1886: - " The need of taking this step has been felt for years, and the reason why it has been put off so long we fail to conceive. Competition with Yale, Harvard, and the larger colleges, inasmuch as no rivalry in this branch of athletics exists between ourselves and them, i unavailing. With poor chances for success at Mott Haven, the proper