Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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About twenty-five men came out yesterday afternoon to try for the senior eleven. They appeared heavier and larger than the other class teams...
...been accomplished by a Harvard nine only once before. For this the present nine deserves a great deal of praise and credit. It was hoped that Harvard would show up rather more strongly at the bat, and at the game on Tuesday the batting will doubtless be still heavier...
...Cambridge and Oxford crews are now rowing every day on the Thames. The latter are the heavier, and are rowing in better form, at the present time...
From the records of Yale College during the past eight years it is shown that the non-smokers were 20 per cent. taller than the smokers, 25 per cent. heavier, and had 66 per cent. more lung capacity. In the last graduating class at Amherst College the non-smokers have gained in weight 24 per cent. over the smokers; in height, 37 per cent., in chest girth, 42 per cent., and in lung capacity, eight and thirty-six hundreths cubic inches...
...these figures it will be seen that Harvard's line averages about one pound and a half heavier than Yale's. Her backs average fifteen pounds heavier; and the average weight of the whole team is six pounds heavier than Yale...