Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...innovations, which the governing squash racquets bodies have under advisement, he explained, are three in number. First the construction of the court would be standardized. Second the playing line would be raised from 14 feet to 16 feet. Third a standard ball would be introduced. All of these changes, Coach Cowles believes, would go far toward advancing and standardizing the quality of play and toward speeding up the game...
...place in the latter stages of the race forced Cutcheon to surpass himself and eliminated the other Crimson entries, P. F. Coburn '24 and J. F. Ryan '26. R. L. Hyatt '24 took first place in the broad jump. The heave of C. A. Eastman '24, which covered 43 feet and one half inches in the shot put, surpassing the old record by seven inches and the recovery of Captain Merrill from some recovery of Captain Merrill from some collisions at the start of the 300, to win second place, were the high spots of the meet...
...Harvard and Cornell. All indications pointed to a dangerous Hanoverian offering. Coach Hillman's strength this year lay in his versatile sophomores. Several stars of his 1925 Freshman team now came to the fore and eliminated his veterans. Moody, a rangy second year Green high-jumper, had cleared six feet and three inches to replace Herring, who had captured this event in the H-D-C meet the year before. In the broad jump, Glendenning, a former Andover flash, showed promise, and was in addition entered in the dash, the 300-yard run, and the relay. Other outside threats were...
...meet records and took over half of the first places. It scored 54 1-4 points to Dartmouth and Cornell's 33 and 28 3-4. Outstanding performances abounded, for even when records were not humbled, the events brought forth competition close enough to bring the crowd to its feet time after time...
...rational relation. He wears no mad makeups, talks no dialects. He sings well enough, dances deftly, juggles Indian clubs, balances at the top of a 12 foot pole swinging hoops on his heels, walks a huge ball up a perilous incline and down the other side, whirls with his feet a heavy pole weighted with a man at either end, tumbles neatly, and catches lighted matches in his mouth. He might be compared to Douglas Fairbanks gone incurably insane. So unaccountable are his activities that some people trying to follow him, don't think that he is funny. They...