Word: metrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metric measurement of races and field events will be substituted for the yard system in the Yale, Princeton, and Intercollegiate track meets this spring, G. M. Fenollosa '33, manager of the Varsity track team and of the I.C.4A. meet, announced last night. The traditional yard measurement will be used in the Greater Boston Intercollegiate Track Meet, in the international meet with Oxford and Cambridge, and probably in the Dartmouth meet...
This change from the long-established custom of measuring college races in yards and miles and field events in feet was caused by the recent action of the I.C.4A. and the A.A.U. In March, 1932, the I.C.4A. voted to run the 1933 Intercollegiates on the metric system if the A.A.U. agreed to adopt the change. Last December the A.A.U. voted favorably on the project, the final decision being left to the athletic boards of the different colleges...
...Winter Sports Number of the H.A.A. News an editorial appears mildly advocating the adoption of the metric system for track and field athletics. Since Olympic distances are measured in meters, and all Continental countries use the metric system, with little expense, English speaking countries could change their standard. The principal attachment to the present system in the United States and particularly in Harvard, seems to be sentimental, according to the editorial, which appears, in part, as follows...
...general discussion of problems of track coaches and a general review of Olympic games experiences will be in order. The coaches also will discuss the new A.A.U. decision to substitute metric distances for the yards and miles system...
...Olympics, to be held in Los Angeles this coming summer, as well as considerations on the possibility of changing the track distances to the metric system in vogue on the Continent, formed the chief matters on the agenda. The meeting this week, however, was of a preliminary and formulative nature, however, and at a later session to be held some time in March, voting will be done and final decisions will be announced...