Word: marker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last distance marker. Distance: 55 ft. 4 in.-some 23 in. beyond the world record...
...period attack which brought three touchdowns in six minutes, the Freshman football team romped over the Yale freshmen 31-6 at the Junior Varsity field on Saturday. Hedblom made Harvard's first touchdown from the two-yard line after a Yale punt had been blocked on the 20-yard marker. Yale's single score came late in the second period on Work's line plunge...
...field events, C. E. Reiche '37 won honors in the high jump, with a leap of 5 feet, 10 inches. As for the pole vault, Albert K. Barcewicz '36 cleared the marker at a height of 12 feet, 9 inches, while Oscar Sutermeister sS.A. trailed...
...Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible to steer, Bellport drifted into a marker, received another disqualification, withdrew. Ruth Sears, who had finished second in the first race, found a puff on the last leg of the three-mile triangular course and won. Next day the breeze was brisk in the morning, light in the afternoon. Ruth Sears won the first race, Lorna Whittelsey the second...
...race committee reached a highly controversial decision: to disqualify Fink in the second race, in which he had finished sixth, for fouling Paul Shields's Gull. Shields had lodged no protest; the boats had not collided. Nonetheless, the committee said that Fink had crossed Shields at a marker and forced him to luff...