Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course making a choppy sea at the Union Boat House. The time of starting was, therefore, delayed till the conditions had become more favorable. At 4.50 both crews were on the line and at 4.57 the start was made. B. A. A. instantly jumped ahead for a few feet and then both crews settled down rowing 36 strokes to the minute. B. A. A., however, evidently had the best of it at this point for her superior watermanship told in the rough water, and there was a noticeable length and power in the middle of her stroke which the Harvard...
...minute stroke. As both crews neared the line, it was impossible to tell from the launch which was ahead, and it was not until the judge at the finish for Harvard had shouted to the referee, Mr. F. Peabody, that B. A. A.'s nose was 10 feet in front of the Harvard boat that B. A. A. was officially declared the winner...
...field events, the high and the broad jump dragged rather slowly and the records made were not very good. J. B. Connolly easily won the latter with a jump of 19 feet 8 inches...
...seldom gain through it. Shaw did the best work, and once stopped a kick. The weakest place in the line was between Rice and Stevenson, and several good gains were made here. Stevenson was too ready to fight with the man opposite him. He was repeatedly carried off his feet through his inattention to the game, and caused Harvard to lose the ball several times by off-side playing. Haughton took Stevenson's place in the second half and made a heartily poor exhibition of himself. He was tossed about at will and was not in the game...
...friend at an early hour, near the scene of the accident, to take the elevated for his home on West Ninety-second street. He evidently fell from the platform unseen while waiting for the train, and was caught by the next passing and dragged by his clothes 150 feet to where he was found, receiving internal injuries which caused his death...