Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...modest not to claim first place in the hurdles for Yale. With Suddington and Berger as her representatives it would seem as if there could be no doubt about the winner. Although Mr. Stevens of Columbia won first place in New York last year with a vault of 10 feet 3-4 inches, he did not do well in the games this winter. Yale and Harvard have both men who have broken the record made by Mr. Stevens and it would seem that he would have difficulty in winning again this year...
Stevens who won the intercollegiate pole vault last year, only cleared 8 feet 11 3-4 in. at the Columbia College athletic games last week...
...with a special eight-page issue at the time of the withdrawal of the senior board and also upon the completion of the eleventh volume. The excellence of the number, in both form and matter, does honor to college journalism. During the past year the Princetonian has printed 950 feet of reading matter in 100 copies...
...running high jump was won at the last winter meeting at Princeton by Mr. Paddock at 5 feet 3 inches...
...whom Harvard is indebted for its possession at the present time. Those who won first prize at the Polo Grounds last May were the tug-of-war team, composed of Easton, L. S. (anchor), Chase, '88, Pendon, '88, and Pease, '88, who, in the final heat, pulled Yale 2 feet 6 inches; Emery Rogers, '87, in the 100-yard dash; Wendell Baker, '85, in the 220-yard dash; Wells, '86, in the quarter-mile run, and Wright, '86, in the mile walk. Second prizes went to H. L. Clark, '87, in the running high jump; R. D. Smith...