Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gourdin '21, winner of the broad jump in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet two years ago, will take part in his favorite event on Saturday as well as in the 100-yard dash, the shot put, and the discus and javelin throws...
Moore of Medford, gathering 10 points for his team in the broad jump and 100-yard dash, was the high scorer and individual star of the meet. His mark of 22 feet 2 1-2 inches in the broad jump adds a foot to the record he made last year, while his 10 2-5 seconds time in the dash ties the record which he holds jointly with his teammate Jaffrey. Moody, also of Medford, set up a new high jumping mark of 4 feet 9 9-16 inches, adding 2 5-16 inches to the record he established last...
Three of the Medford squad stand out among the brilliant individuals who will compete today. Kelley in the 440-yard run, Moore in the broad jump, and Moody in the high jump should all contribute heavily to their team's point score. Among the other prominent performers will probably be Banchman and Dicks of Newton; McKillop of Boston English; Daley of Brookline; Rumpff of Commerce; Clark of Hyde Park; and Beach of Fitchburg...
...program of tomorrow's contests will include three field events, the shot put, high jump, and broad jump; five regular track events, the 120-yard and 220-yard dashes, the quarter and half mile runs, and the low hurdles; and eight relay races, five of which will be for teams in the second class and three for representatives of the Class A schools. The winners in each class will be selected on the basis of the time records turned...
...Annie Jump Cannon, curator of the Harvard College Observatory, was born in Delaware 59 years ago, and educated at Wellesley. She has been at Harvard continuously since 1896 and ranks among the most distinguished American astronomers. Her main subjects of research are photographic spectra of stars and variable stars. She has discovered more one hundred and fifty new and variable stars, compiled a bibliography of 45,000 references, and completed a catalogue of 220,000 stellar spectra which will fill nine volumes of the Harvard Observatory Annals...