Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Standing high jump - Jack '96, 4 feet 6 inches...
...last meet of the Yale Gymnastic Association was held last Wednesday evening and was a great success. The college record for the standing high jump was broken by nearly three inches by L. P. Sheldon '96, who cleared the bar at five feet. At the close of the contest G. L. Buist, Jr., '96, was announced the College Gymnast, having made a total of twenty-four points in eight contests. Handsome silver cups were awarded to the winners of the first and second places in the contests...
...Athletic Association will hold an athletic meeting in their gymnasium, on Exeter St., on the evening of Saturday, March 9, at 8 o'clock. The following events will be open: Potato race, 40 yards hurdle race - 3 hurdles 3 1/2 feet high, 3 standing broad jumps, putting 16 pound shot, pole vault, running high jump, 35 yards dash. All the events are scratch. Entries may be left with Mr. Lathrop before March...
...White, the head master of Berkeley School, is planning several changes in the cinder-track at Berkely Oval, where the intercollegiate championships were held last year. The straight-away will be widened by about 6 feet and the corners will be well banked. This will admit of at least two more contestants running at once in the dashes and should result in cutting down the time in the bicycle race considerably...
...were marked by an inflexible rigidity, because their rules were thought to have come down from Heaven itself. To most football players the suggestion of a radical change in the game seems about as impious as to ask a Priest of Menu to say his prayers without washing his feet...