Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale dormitory, 175 feet long, costing $85,000 will soon be erected on the College Street side of the Yale Campus...
...entries for the Manhattan Athletic Club games are from the large colleges, and as the handicap limit has been set low, the entries are all of a high grade. Most of the men entered from Harvard are in the 70 yards dash. S. V. R. Thayer has 8 feet handicap, A. H. Green 3 feet, J. Hale, Jr., 6 feet, and O. K. Hawes 5 feet. Roddy of Princeton will be the scratch...
...first two events on the programme.- putting the shot and standing high jump-took place at the same time. In the former. J. R. Finlay, H. A. A., had little difficulty in winning with a distance of 36 feet 3 inches. S. H. Evins, H. A. A., was second with a distance of 35 feet 4 inches. The standing high jump was won by C. H. Bean, H. A. A., height 4 feet 7 1-8 inches; G. F. Taylor, H. A. A., second, height 4 feet 6 1-8 inches...
...pole vault was won by H. R. Dalton, Jr., B. A. A.- an old St. Mark's man,- height 9 feet 10 inches; J. Crane Jr., and B. A. A., second, 9 feet 9 5-8 inches...
...running high jump A. H. Green, H. A. A., dropped out at 5 feet 9 1-4 inches; C. D. Heywood, M. I. T., dropped out at 5 feet 10 1-4 inches; J. E. Morse, B. A. A., dropped out at 6 feet 1 1-4 inches. The event was won by G. R. Fearing, H. A. A., 6 1-4 inches; J. E. Morse, B. A. A., second, 5 feet 11 1 4 inches. The bar was then placed at 6 feet 3 1-4, one inch higher than the world's record, but Fearing was unable...