Word: inch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the Yale foot-ball team were given their trophies yesterday. They are miniature gold footballs an inch long, and about half an inch in diameter. On one side is inlaid in blue enamel the name of the owner and the "Champion," 1883, and on the other side the letters "Y. U. F. B. C.," and "Points Won 489, lost 4." They were made by Ford, and are of tasty design...
...college expected little from them, and turned out on the Common on May 15th with gloomy hearts. The day was unfavorable, but the crowds were enormous, packing every inch of the Beacon street wall behind the ropes. The blue uniforms of the Lowells, and the red of the Harvard's made a striking contrast on the field. The crowd favored the Lowells, hooting and cheering, and on one occasion holding a hit to centre field "until the striker and one man got home." Harvard was badly rattled during the first four innings. During the last five, however, they turned...
POLE VAULT: - High, 11 ft. 1-2 inch. Baxter...
...firm of J. Bergmann & Brothers of Troy, are about to build for the Yale University crew a new paper shell, to combine all the advantages of shells hitherto used, without disadvantages. It is 65 feet by 25 inches, one foot longer and one inch wider than the shell used in last year's race. This shell is to be tested by the Yale crew and is sent by the manufacturers merely as an experiment...
...alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have had double the time to go into...