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...needed. Here is where the big reduction in weight comes. This difference is expected to be between fifteen and twenty pounds, which with the saving on the gunwale and rising will bring the weight of the boat to about two hundred and thirty pounds. This probably, will be the lightest eight-oared shell ever made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's New Shell. | 1/4/1892 | See Source »

...they were out of training they played a very creditable game. Their backs did not make any long runs but they made short gains through the line very frequently and used the revolving wedge effectively. They were a lighter set of men even than their opponents who form the lightest freshman team that has ever played for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard '95, 22; B. L. S., 2. | 11/25/1891 | See Source »

...first place are not so good. The average weights of the several crews are as follows: Seniors, 163 3-8 pounds; juniors, 166 3-4; sophomores, 158 7-8; freshmen, 163 1-4. It will thus be seen that the junior crew is the heaviest and the sophomore the lightest. What the sophomores lack in weight they make up in form. The '94 crew shows more or less raggedness in their rowing, but on the whole is up to the average freshman crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Races. | 5/13/1891 | See Source »

...Coumbia 'varsity crew this year will only average 160 pounds, making it the lightest crew Columbia has put on the water for years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/25/1891 | See Source »

...being the age of the average '94 man, to 18 years, 1 month for last year's freshmen. Ninety-four is also the heavier class, averaging 135 ibs. to 130. '93, however, has the heaviest man, 242 lbs. to 203 of the heaviest '94 man; but '94 has the lightest man, 77 lbs. to '93s 97. The tallest man in '94 is 6 ft. 2 3-4 in.; in 93 6 ft. 1-6 in. The shortest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Freshman Measurements. | 12/10/1890 | See Source »

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