Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Broad jump.--Harvard 1915: E. F. Atkins, Jr., C. E. Brickley, J. L. Foley, M. L. Greeley, Jr., H. R. Hardwick P. M. Rice, H. W. D. Rudd, H. St.J. Smith, J. P. Spang, Jr., CC. H. Tilton, R. Tower, G. H. Whitney. Yale 1915: Brantly Hyatt, Mathews, Paris...
...disturb an eight-oared crew, even when the launch is running at high speed. The bows flare out rather sharply over the surface of the water just above the waterline and give a quick rotary motion to the bow wash, casting the water under the boat, while the broad, almost flat-bottomed stern has the effect of smoothing the water out and leaves a broad shallow furrow in its wake. By combining, thus, speed and easy handling in a boat so constructed that it is able to ran close to shore or near to the crew which is being coached...
...scratch broad-jumping competition will be held in the Stadium this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. All those who are eligible for the University track squad are eligible to compete. A cup will be awarded to the winner of the competition...
...Broad jump competition in Stadium...
...outcome of the meet was in doubt until the last event, the broad jump, and in this Yale managed to win the nine points necessary to tie Princeton in the total score. In spite of the tie score, Yale claimed the meet because of a clause in the agreement between the Yale and Princeton track associations, to the effect that when there is a tie on the total points, the team winning the greater number of firsts shall be declared the victor...