Word: broad-jump
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...Broad-jump--Deacon (Y) and A. E. French...
...week. Mr. Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second in the low hurdles, and rounded off his day by sprinting 65 yards in 6 4/5 seconds breaking a world's record* that has stood for 18 years...
...annual track and field championships. A pair of great black legs-flying ebony which provided locomotion for DeHart Hubbard, famed Negro athlete of the University of Michigan-pumped down a narrow aisle 100 yd. long. The watches had ticked 9 and 74/100 sec. Hubbard had previously won the running broad-jump with a leap of 25 ft. 3½ in. He scored 10 points, which surpassed the score of any other man, black or white, in the meet. With a pillar of wind at his back, one Frederick Alderman of the Michigan Agricultural School broke a Conference record...
Parker, captain-elect of the Green football team, will lead the Dartmouth weightmen against Cornell and the Crimson. He will be supported by untried men in his event. In the broad-jump and the sprints Dartmouth has entered veterans of last year, but in the distances her runners are untested...
...javelin throw there are two experienced entrants, Kernan and Greenidge, while Carpenter is the leading discus thrower. Merril in the broad-jump, Dunker, Evans and Eastman in the shot, and Gerould, Hyatt and Morse in the high-jump present a field of probable scratch men of unusual ability. Only in the pole-vault and weight-throw is an experienced group lacking. These two events should provide ample opportunity for inexperienced material to test their skill with the 35 pound weight and the vaulting pole. Since there are virtually no experienced men in these two departments, any high performers in today...