Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leap of 6 ft. 6 in. landed Harold Osborne, Illinois A. C, in top place of the running high jump...
...final effort to save it. There is not the slightest argument in favor of these points-of-view. Skillful as Macready is, the failure of his engine at dead of night would certainly have meant a termination of his valuable career if not for the huge, umbrella-like parachute. Jumping from a plane is sufficiently hazardous, and calls for real nerve, and none of the men who fly these ships should be deprived of this last resort or fail to practice for the awful moment when they must jump. Whether passengers can ever be made to undertake the sickening leap...
Mapes was the only Crimson golfer who was at all hard pressed. Hodder was playing on his home course, where he had in 67 medal, everything holed. Peirson early got the jump on the medalist, Norton, when the latter missed a two-foot putt at the first hole...
...Broad Jump.--Won by Comins, Yale, 24ft. 8in.; second, Rose, Penn. 24ft. 3 11-16in.; third, Boren, California, 24ft. 1 5-8in.; fourth, Wilson, Southern California, 22ft. 9 1-2in.; fifth, tie between Canfield, Dartmouth, and Watson, Colgate, 22ft...
...High Jump.--Won by Flahive, Boston College, 6ft. 2 5-8in.; tie for second among Doppen, Cornell; Proctor, Johns Hopkins; Carson, Penn; Anderson, Stanford...