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Wendell Baker broke the half-mile college record yesterday afternoon by 3-5 of a second. The previous record of 2 minutes and 4-5 seconds was held by Goodwin...
Bemis, '87, broke the record in the seven-mile walk yesterday afternoon by about seven minutes. The previous record was 65m. 15s. His record...
...field, giving '87 the kick-off. From the moment the game began it was evident that both sides were playing for all they knew. Gradually the ball was worked down towards '86's goal, the '86 backs doing some terrible muffing while '87's rush-line broke through in a marvellous manner, stopping all attempts at kicking. For a while the ball stuck about the twenty-five yard line, but sharp work and fine dropping on the ball by the juniors, forced the ball close under '86's goal. After several futile attempts Fletcher succeeded in getting the ball across...
...great feature of the game was the rush line work of the two teams, being clever, powerful and effective. '87 had the heavier rush line, and on the whole it broke through better; but this was more than counterbalanced by the superior running powers of some of the '86 men, and also by the fact that after the first fifteen minutes '86 played Rankin in the rush line, and dispensing with a full-back, thus gained one man over the juniors. The rush-line work was a good deal sharper and better than that of the Yale team when they...
...Club on Wednesday last attracted the largest number of contestants and spectators that has been present at any meeting this year. The shooting in the first match was brilliant. It is seldom that the score sheets show such a result as that obtained yesterday, when the four leading men broke 37 out of the 40 pigeons shot at. The falling off in the scores of the subsequent matches is accounted for by a sudden change in the wind, and by the increasing darkness...