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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Running high jump 6ft. 2 1-2in. Oxford...
...open competition this spring makes or surpasses the following standard: 100-yard dash, 10 2-5s; 220 yard dash, 23s; 440-yard dash, 51 1-2s; 880-yard run, 2m 3s: 1-mile run, 4m. 40s; 120-yard hurdle. 17s; 220-yard hurdle, 26s; running broad jump, 21 ft.; running high jump, 5 ft. 10 in; pole vault, 10 ft. 6 in; 2 mile bicycle race, 5m 50s.; putting 16 pound shot, 38 ft.; throwing 16-pound hammer, 90 ft.; mile walk...
...first event was the running high jump in which the following men contested: W. E. Putnam '96 (4 inches); C. J. Paine B. A. A. (4 inches); E. H. Clark '96 (6 inches); M. F. Sweeney X. A. A. (scratch); P. C. Stingle M. A. C, (4 inches); G. C. Chaney '94 (6 inches); H. M. Wheelwright '94 (6 inches). The bar was started at 4 feet 8 inches. All cleared till the bar was raised to 5 feet 6 inches which Clark failed on his third trial At this point Stingle entered the competition. Chaney and Wheel wright dropped...
...recent Oxford University games C. B. Frye tied the world's record for the running broad jump by clearing 23 feet 6 1-2 inches. Lutyens ran the mile in 4 minutes 21 seconds...
Following are the events to be competed for: forty-five yards dash, six hundred yards run, mile run, mile walk, forty-five yards hurdle, pole vault, high jump, wrestling...