Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oustanding success of eligible I.C.4-A. contenders this winter points to perhaps the finest meet in I.C.4-A. history. Ben Johnson, Columbia captain, sensational record-breaker in the Millrose games, has twice scored I.C.4-A. doubles in the 60-yard sprint and broad jump indoors...
Physicians and coaches are currently concerned lest the point-a-minute basketball resulting from elimination of the centre jump (TIME, Jan. 24) become too great a strain on players' hearts. Last week in New Orleans, a game between Loyola and Centenary was tied 35-10-35 at the end of the first half, 67-10-67 at the end of the second. Centenary finally won 78-10-72, after a five-minute extra period. The score was tied 17 times, the lead seesawed 26 times. The players got along all right, but two spectators fainted from excitement...
...youth, the handicap of college editors, is also their advantage, for they are without the ties, convictions, and prejudices of older men. Ideally they mould and crystallize that which is finest in undergraduate opinion, developing and stimulating undergraduate thought, while staying always one jump ahead of the college in pointing the way to reform. Ideally they are conscious of their obligation, as Dean Leighton once put it, "to be accurate in statements of fact, and cognizant of other possible views in statements of opinion...
Alexander Northrop disappointed expectations in the half mile. He gained sixth place and his time of 2:08 is the poorest he has done for a long time. Rob Haydock suffered even worse luck in the high jump. Though the Harvard record holder of over 6 ft. 3 in., Haydock barely cleared 6 ft. Saturday...
Mason Fernald is entered in the 60-yard high hurdles. Fernald was put out in the 45 yard hurdle semi-finals last Saturday in the Prout Games in the Boston Garden, but is expected to do better over the longer distance. Bob Haydock, Harvard record holder, will high jump. This will be his debut in 1938 winter track...