Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Capper began his athletic career at Brookline High School where he played on the football team and began his development as a track star. At high school, he ran the sprints, the low hurdles, and the quarter, besides doing a little broad-jumping. His skill in each of these events kept him from specializing in any one of them and it was not until last year, when he had been shifted to the half-mile, that he began to show really championship calibre. In his Freshman year, Capper ran the quarter against Yale and took second place. Last year...
...BROAD JUMP...
...have brought California's total above that of Dartmouth and Yale. Dartmouth, through Braun, who earned nine points in the two hurdle races, Whitney who finished second in the shot-put, Buck who landed in a tripple tie for first in the pole-vault, and Nordell who took the broad jump, finished fourth in the ranking...
Harvard loses several sure points in the broad and high jumps since J. O. Johnstone '16, is barred because of a technicality in a ruling of the I. C. A. A. A. A. The high jump should go to Oler, of Yale, without much dispute unless it be from the Californians, McPhie and Nichols, for there no other high jumpers who can make 6 feet. Douglas, of Yale has done 5 feet, 11 inches as have Hallett, of Haverford, and Maker, of California. These marks will probably be good enough to secure places...
Nordell, of Dartmouth, should take the broad jump, but with Morrison, of Cornell, a close second; Broadt, also of Cornell, should be good for third place while Cooke, and Hampton of Yale and Graham, of Columbia will probably divide the last two places among them