Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...turf, over hurdles firmly fixed in the ground, which bring the runner to sudden grief, if he comes in contact with them. This is radically different from the American style of loose hurdles set up on the cinder path. Englishmen claim that it is necessary to jump higher at the English style and that the turf is not so fast as the made path. L. E. Pilkington, the Cambridge representative for the double event, is short and heavy, not unlike Shaw of the London team, in build, and is speedy for the first five hurdles, but does not seem capable...
Mendelson, who will compete for Cambridge in the broad jump, is not a consistent performer, and if Sheldon, the Yale captain, succeeds in getting into anything like condition, the chances are that this event will go to Yale. Sheldon's injured foot, which has been very painful, is almost well. He expects to be in perfect form...
...sixteenpound hammer. He approaches his take off at a slant, has no great amount of spring, and clears the bar all doubled up, his body bent, as if he would grasp his feet and lift himself over. He gives the impression of attempting to sit on the bar. Jennings jumps in better form, taking off usually straight ahead, although he sometimes affects the slanting run. It is probable that the high jump will go to Cambridge, as neither Thompson nor Sheldon, who will represent Yale, can be depended upon to do more than five feet ten inches...
...Oxford-Yale meeting last season, there were included in the programme nine events: 100 yards run, quarter mile run, half mile run, 120 yards hurdle, putting shot, throwing hammer, running broad jump, running high jump. Both firsts and one second were taken in the 100 yards run and 120 yards hurdles by the Oxford men, C. B. Fry, W. J. Oakley and G. Gordon, while Yale's only point winner in these events was G. B. Hatch, who took a second in the hurdles...
...records should give each side one of the jumps. Fry of Oxford holds the world's record of 23 ft. 6 1/2 in., but L. P. Sheldon of Yale defeated him with a jump of 22 ft. 10 in., and since that time has shown his ability to cover a greater distance. A. Stickney of Harvard was second in both the dual and intercollegiate events. In the high jump Paine of Harvard could get only third place in the intercollegiate with 5 ft. 10 3/4 in., but in the Yale-Harvard games a week previous he cleared...