Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant performance of the relay team, would have been discreditable. For of all the men who had been counted on before the meet as possible point winners, only one succeeded in scoring. R. D. Gerould, '24, who tied with several others for second place in the high jump...
...send to the South Sea Isles an expedition to take motion pictures. Said I: 'There are many millions of persons interested in fish. .... I have strong reasons to believe that in the South Sea Islands there are fish that come out of the water, can live on land, will jump three feet to catch a grasshopper and actually climb trees. And I figure that pictures of fish climbing trees ought to be profitable...
...shot put, a recurrence of Eastman's old football injury kept him from making the distances which had been expected of him. And Berglund, still an inexperienced weight thrower, fouled in a throw of 48 feet which would have brought him second place. Gerould, however, with his jump of five feet ten in the high jump, which netted 1 1-9 points, was the only man besides those on the relay team to score, bringing the University's total for the meet to 5 1-9 points
...competition on Saturday night, only one man in all the individual events succeeded in scoring,--Gerould, who tied with eight others for second place in the high jump; while in the two relays in which the University was represented,--the one-mile relay and the Freshman medley relay,--both teams fought their way against almost over whelming odds to second places...
Other scoring prospects for the University may be found in Chase in the dash, Fletcher in the hurdles, Hyatt in either the broad or the high jump, and Chapin in the mile. The Crimson chances, however, are decidedly weakened by the fact that Watters will be unable to compete in the mile run, and that there will be no Crimson two-mile relay team, leaving in both events a distinct advantage with Yale and Georgetown, the two strongest contenders for the championship