Word: feet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Reserve Officers' Training Corps have been turned down on account of physical disabilities. Of the men whose applications have been accepted about 15 per cent. would be rejected by a recruiting station examining men for admission into the regular army. The majority of the men turned down have defective feet, a weak heart, poor eyes, or difficulty in hearing...
...examining all candidates for admission into the Training Corps, is rejecting only those applicants whose physical disabilities are most conspicuous. Men who have minor defects with the eyes, heart, feet, etc., are admitted into the Unit if they desire to enter. Those who are rejected on their first physical examination are to present themselves at Weld 4 in order to find out if they are eligible for admittance under the new requirements...
...mile. J. Coggeshall, Jr., '18, with a handicap of 90 yards, won the mile run. He ran a beautifully timed race in four minutes 19 3-5 seconds, and G. G. Haydock '16, with a handicap of nine inches, won the pole vault with an actual vault of 12 feet...
...order to accustom the team to the size of the rink at New Haven the managers have had constructed false sideboards four feet high, which narrow the Arena down to the requisite size, cutting off over 1,000 square feet of ice. These boards will be erected for practice every day this week...
...York, 1917, prepared at Hotchkiss and has played goal for two years on the university team. He weighs 150 pounds, is five feet ten inches in height, and is 21 years...