Word: feet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With only today and tomorrow remaining before the football team leaves Boston, practice has assumed the most intensive form possible without resorting to a real scrimmage. To facilitate practice, the entire squad moved out to the Commonwealth Armory, where an enclosed surface 225 feet by 175 feet gave ample room for drill. Yesterday the men ran through their second practice there and worked the same points which have busied them since practice was resumed after the Yale game. In addition, the drill was lengthened out to permit the coaches to show the two teams all they know about characteristic Oregon...
...surface open to skaters measures 220 by 201 feet, making it one of the largest in the world, and it is estimated that a crowd of 2,500 will be able to skate in comfort when the rink is opened to the public on Saturdays and holidays. The Ice Palace will have 4,000 seats giving it the largest seating capacity of any structure of its kind in the world. Beside the so-called "Big Three", Dartmouth and Pennsylvania are among the others who will use the Philadelphia rink...
...committee has swept aside the old foot-fault rule, with its numerous interpretations, and proposes the following: "Before commencing to serve the server shall stand with both feet at rest behind the serving line and both feet shall be kept behind the base-line until the ball is struck." The main purpose of the rule is to prevent the server from taking an unfair advantage in getting...
...held at both meets are the same and are as follows. 60 yards dash, 300 yards run, 600 yards run, 1000 yards run, two-miles run, one-mile walk, running high jump, standing high jump, standing broad jump, 16-pound shot-put, 70-yards hurdle of 6 flights, 3 feet, 6 inches high...
...novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth escape from the Apaches of the typical couple alone far out in the wilderness; how the hero lowers the girl 200 feet down a precipice with his lariat, and they ride off together over the prairie to the little railway station, where they are to separate forever...