Word: chests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SPECIAL line base-ball Bats, Masks Catchers Gloves, Chest Protector, at J. W. BRINE, 10 and 11 Harvard...
SPECIAL line base-ball Bats, Masks Catchers Gloves, Chest Protector, at J. W. BRINE, 10 and 11 Harvard...
...although equally promising, with those mentioned. Thus the only veterans left are Captain Storrow and Davis. The most promising candidates, with the exception of the foot-ball men, practised watermanship on the river in the fall. Since then the men have been at work with the rowing machines, the chest-weights and the dumb-bells, and have taken walks and runs out-of-doors. The great trouble is that owing to the many ideas about the stroke during the past five years, it is hard to get the men to row alike. There is also a certain deadness...
...present trying for the crew, which is to represent their college and class at New London, have been at work sixteen weeks. During these weeks long walks have been taken and sharp runs, together with work on the chest-weights, and an increased number of strokes on the rowing-weights. Of the forty men who started in, the sixteen who remain are in much improved condition, and as a crew have made a gain of from 3 to 4 pounds. The men are rather lighter than the average freshman candidates, but as weight is not the most important requisite...
...concerning the effects of training All but four of the class have made recided physical progress during the year, although only a small proportion of the class have taken a regular course of training. The most noticeable increase in the measurements have been in height, girth of in flatted chest and girth of head. A very notable example of the effect of light exercise is in the case of a man, who, during the year, without the aid of any regular course training has developed more than any one in his class. His gains have been: In height...