Word: field
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...difficult task to express in cold print our appreciation of the University track team's magnificent work on Soldiers Field last Saturday. The results of the trials on Friday made us rather optimistic, but somehow we could not quite believe that the intercollegiate championship would really be won. But from the very beginning of the afternoon on Saturday, it was apparent that Harvard was making the best showing, and most of the time a comfortable lead was maintained. In several events the University team did better than anyone would have expected, and throughout, the performances were uniformly excellent. After such...
...Harvard second. Hartranft of Pennsylvania made the same time in the fourth heat. He was closely pressed by Robbins of Yale, who took second. The fifth heat was a walk-over for Talcott of Cornell as Roscoe of Stevens was the only other competitor. In order to reduce the field to eight men for the semifinals, two heats for second men were run. The first was won by Welch with Piper second. Roscoe withdrew from the other heat and Robbins ran through the distance at his leisure...
...Field Events...
...Cornell, Pickles of Pennsylvania, and Campbell of Yale followed in succession. After three failures Vezin of Princeton and Nelson of Yale tied for fifth place at the same height. In the jump-off Nelson won, thereby excluding Vezin from the finals. It took a long time to reduce the field in the high jump to five men. Pope of Harvard, Palmer of Dartmouth, and Canfield of Yale cleared 5 feet 10 inches, but Harwood and Lawrence of Harvard tied with Rossman of Cornell and Lane of Pennsylvania for the other two places. Lane was the first to be eliminated...
...University second baseball team shut out Springfield Training School on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon by the score of 6 to 0. The Springfield team was clearly out-classed both in batting and fielding, whereas the second team made nine hits, including three two-base hits, and only one error. Long showed excellent control, striking out ten men and allowing but two hits and one base on balls...