The team begins practice the following spring on Cambridge Common, the site where General George Washington had taken command of the Continental Army some 80 years earlier. Harvard's first baseball team, the '66 Baseball Club, is formed by freshmen George A. Built for Harvard in the fall of 1857 it is first used against Yale in 1859.ĭecember 1862 - Freshmen Form Baseball Club The first college racing "shell" built in America was the Harvard, a 40-foot, six-oared pine shell with iron outriggers, but without coxswain or rudder. Eliot later serves as Harvard's President from 1869 until 1909. It is believed to be the first time a sports team features an identifying mark. Eliot '53 purchases six red Chinese silk bandanas for his crew members to wear for that day's regatta. Harvard distinguishes itself from its competition when Charles W. The Harvard and Yale heavyweight crews now hold an annual four mile contest on the Thames River in New London, CT, the longest race of its kind in the country. Harvard wins the two-mile contest and sets into motion a rivalry that thrives to this day. Harvard and Yale meet in America's first intercollegiate athletic event-a crew race on Lake Winnipesaukee in Center Harbor, NH. Members of the Class of 1847, competing in the Huron, defeat the Wave of Boston over an approximate two-mile course on the Charles River. Harvard crew holds its first race against an outside opponent.
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