Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...POLE VAULT.J. W. Dudley and Craig each cleared 8 feet 3 inches; then both failed at 8 feet 6 inches, and the bar was put down to 8 feet 3 inches, which height Dudley failed to clear on a second trial. The event consequently went to Craig...
PUTTING THE SHOT.Clark, '86, broke the record by a throw of 37 feet. Kip, '83, had the record, 35 feet 11 inches, which was the United States college record. Cuzner, of McGill University, Canada, holds the American college record by his throw...
...Yale athletic spring games were held on Wednesday, and resulted as follows: C. F. Odell, '86, won the 100 yards dash in 11 1-5 seconds. H. L. Mitchell, '85, S., won the one-half mile run in 2.08 4-5. A. B. Coxe, '87, threw the hammer 88 feet 9 inches, and won. L. W. Bond, '86, S., took the mile run in 4.48 1 2. J. H. Briggs, '85, put the shot 35 feet 8 1-2 inches. J. D. Ferris, '85, won the 1-4 mile run in 57 1-2 seconds; N. M. Goodlett...
LOST.- About April 27, a new tennis net, (square meshes), white, with red edge: size 33 x 3 feet, 4 feet poles (not jointed), and guy-ropes. Return to 9 Thayer...
...crews have passed through the draw, a long whistle will be sounded from the referee's tug as the signal for the crews to get into line. A rope will be stretched across the river, to which four row boats will be moored at a distance of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach...