Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard's part in preparing for the intercollegiate contests of next spring. "In certain sports," it says, "there was a limit put, but why it does not appear, for it surely did not induce men to enter, and detracted from the enjoyment of the occasion. The standing high jump was omitted, as was the bicycle race. If Harvard has any idea of winning the cur next year there must be a vast improvement shown at the spring meeting...
...Amherst correspondent of the Boston Journal gives Amherst a big boom in leaping - surpassing all records ever made; standing high jump...
...Holden acted as timekeeper. The prizes were silver medals and pewter cups. The following-named were the successful competitors: One-hundred yard dash, A. A. Heard - time, 11 3/4 sec.; base-ball throw, H. F. McIntire, 272 feet; mile run, C. F. Ayer, 5 min. 38 sec.; long jump, W. S. Allen, 16 feet 7 1/2 inches; 220-yard dash, E. T. Hoyt, Jr., 29 sec.; foot-ball kick, G. T. Westland, 119 feet; quarter-mile run, C. F. Ayer, 1 min. 3 3/4 sec.; hurdle race, 120 yards, ten hurdles, H. F. McIntire, 21 1/4 sec.; half-mile...
...Morison, '83, won the running high jump over A. C. Denniston, '83, and W. A. Stebbins, '86, with a record of 5 ft. 3 in. Messrs. Denniston and Stebbins did not jump off for second place...
...Mandell, '84, won the running broad jump, covering 18 ft. His only competitor was L. Lincoln, Jr., '86, who covered...