Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There are several events, which we have sometimes won and sometimes lost during past years, some of which we must win next May in order to win the cup. Unfortunately our best athletes in these particular events have graduated, so that for the mile run, the broad and pole jump and the shot and hammer, we have, at present, no one as good as last year. All these events need long and careful preparation and constant practice. We are therefore much surprised that the Athletic Association has not taken any steps as yet in regard to helping and urging...
...Technology Athletic games Mr. Twombly '87, cleared 6 ft. 9 3-4 in. in the fence vault. F. A. Young won the standing high jump with 4 ft. 9 3-4 inches...
...following events were contested at the Fall Meeting of the Tech. Athletic Club, on Dec.22, standing high jump, fence vault, putting the shot, light and middle-weight sparring, and tugs-of-war. The '86 class team won the latter event...
...feels amply qualified to join the active throng before him ; he feels an almost irrepressible inclination to throw himself in the midst of the play, just as some people of peculiar nervous constitutions can never see an expense train dashing by a platform without an insane desire to jump at it. His hair has no touch of gray about it, his step is elastic, he still sticks to his cricket or rowing club, he is in every way a healthy, active, full-spirited man, and yet when he looks on at a foot-ball match as a mere passive spectator...
...Ford on Nov. 3 broke the standing long jump record by jumping 10ft...