Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most tremendous drum that has ever echoed among the colonnades of the Stadium, will be one of the peculiar features of the Purdue football invasion of Cambridge next Saturday. This drum is ten feet in diameter and will have to be pulled around on a three-wheeled go-cart...
...next feat, perhaps the most spectacular and sensational of all, was when Ostheimer and Fuhrer spent 36 hours without rest in climbing four peaks from the Columbia Ice-field, one of which, the North Twin, was over 12,000 feet. The party left camp one morning at 1 o'clock and returned after many hours of hardship on the ice, having used flash-lights to guide their steps during the night. It was the first complete ascent to the ice-field from the Athabaska valley...
When the god of football reform has grown bloated, frenzied, and irrational it is not unpleasant to make a pilgrimage to his defeated deity--the gargantuan idol with feet of clay. Thus an October afternoon spent witnessing an old and popular sport is an effective antidote to an over-dose of over-emphasis; illusions concerning the importance of football games have been partially removed and the result is that the logical attitude towards the game--that of sanity, that which minimizes both defeats and victories--is once more practicable. Saturday afternoons are seen in a more normal light: as occasions...
...horse again the party made a permanent camp for two weeks at Fortress Pass, during which time Ostheimer, Fuherer, Weber, de Laittre, and Maclaurin made a side trip into Lick Creek Valley. From there Mt. Catacombs was ascended for the first time, as well as Mt. "Lowell," 10,300 feet, named by the party in honor of President Lowell...
...that rangy type of lineman which has to a great extent replaced the slow, massive guards and centers of former days and which in a still more open and speedy game, such as the new rules promise before the season is over, should be increasingly valuable. Simonds is six feet one inch tall and is capable of bringing 180 pounds of beef to bear on opposing guards and tackles...