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...pole-vault Barr of Harvard was the first to clear 12 feet, 1 1-8 inches. Cook of 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...
Pole-vault--Won by J. A. King; R. Murray and L. C. Torrey tied for second. Torrey won jump-off. Height...
...field events the high jump and shot-put were the most encouraging. B. T. Stephenson, Jr., '08 won the shot-put with a good put of 44 feet. Stephenson also won the broad jump with a jump of 21 feet 4 inches. The high jump was a tie between R. G. Harwood '09, G. E. Roosevelt '09, and R. E. Somers '08, at 5 feet 9 inches; in the jump-off for first prize Harwood won first place with a splendid jump of 5 feet 10 1-4 inches, which is better than either of last year's records...
...play. K. Smith, at right forward, passes fairly well, but is weak in his throwing. Since the return of the team from the New York trio. Randall has been at centre. He has so far failed to equal his play of last year be is usually first in the jump-off at centre, but plays only a fair passing and throwing game...
...standard of his play last year. His playing, however, has on one or two occasions been brilliant, notably in the Brown game, when he threw ten of the twenty-one goals scored. He covers poorly, and during the last half of a game invariably lacks speed. On the jump-off he is first to touch the ball, and in this should be valuable tonight. Linehan, at right forward, passes well and is a fairly good shot at goal, although during the past two weeks his ability has greatly deteriorated off in this respect. His tendency is to fumble the ball...