Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Upton, '90' Big Rapids. Michigan, weight 164, age 25, height 5 feet, 91/2 inches...
...Thayer, '90, Fredonia, weight 168, age 23, height 5 feet 91/2 inches...
...Hagerman, '90, Colorado Springs, Col., weight 170, age 20, height 6 feet...
...Rublee, L. S., and L. C. Wason, M. I. T., contested the running high kick. Rublee had some difficulty in reaching 8 feet 8 inches, but Wason kicked 9 feet without failing once...
...next event was the pole vault, for which T. G. Shearman, Yale, and R. G. Leavitt, '89, appeared. Leavitt cleared 10 feet, 3 1-4 inches, breaking the Harvard record of 10 feet, 5-8 inches, made by Leavitt himself, April 2, 1887. Shearman vaulted 1 inch higher, thus winning the event, and also establishing a new record for Yale. The intercollegiate record for this event is only 10 feet, 3-4 inches., and was made at the meeting in 1886 by Shearman and A. Stevens, of Columbia...