Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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JUMPING: - 29 feet 7 inches, in one running jump, by Howard Chester in England...
...yesterday's issue a communication which admonishes the enthusiasts on the subject of flooding Holmes Field to consider "both sides of the question before advocating their plan, so ardently before their college." The writer names an objection which he seems to think explodes the whole scheme; namely, that three feet of water will be needed "to cover amply all the undulations and irregularities on the surface of such a large field." The gentleman might as well have made the number of feet ten or twenty instead of three; for they would have sounded more formidable, and would have stated...
...noted carefully the irregularities on the field when it was covered with snow-ice; and unless the gentleman would wish to cover the back-stop fence, I am convinced that five or six inches of water would make as smooth a field of ice as three or four feet would. Every winter a mass of snow-ice accumulates on Holmes Field, sometimes to a considerable depth; none of the dire calamities which the gentleman predicts would follow artificial flooding, have ever yet occurred, and I am sure a few inches of ice will have no perceptible effect on the field...
...line from Boston to Hartford and shortens the distance many miles between Boston and New York. The road follows the Boston and Albany four miles from Worcester to Shrewsbury lake, thence proceeding in nearly an air line through South Shrewsbury to Hudson. There are no grades exceeding 33 feet to the mile upon the entire line. The road has been surveyed and is expected to be built as soon as October...
Lyons, '85, of Yale has made the longest throw and also the longest hit in the Inter-collegiate record. The distance of the throw was 385 feet 2 inches that of the hit was 450 feet from the home plate to the spot at which the ball fell...