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...consistent record breaking of 23-year-old Les Steers has made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with...
...shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared to be in danger until my captain drew a bead on the leader in short pants with an anti-tank machine gun. The German was a six-footer. The blast got him squarely in the chest. He disintegrated from the waist up. His followers, seeing what had happened to him, hurled their grenades and withdrew...
...undergraduate so ill-advised as to simulate feeble-mindedness with a view to escape military service, would stand as little chance as a six-footer pretending to be three feet," Frederic Lyman Wells, psychologist to the Hygiene Department stated recently...
Apthorp dented the twine in 9.41 of the second half and Tilghman salted the game away with a 15-footer from a sharp right angle. Winthrop, with 13 points out of a possible 14, thus earned the right to meet Timothy Dwight this Friday at New Haven...
Forwards Lutze and Elken are both tall and easy-going until the pressure is applied. Lutze is perhaps the steadier player, while Elken's total of twelve tallies in the M. I. T. contest exemplifies his sure eye. Center George Burditt, another six footer, in addition to rolling up a sizable score has utilized his height at the backboard...