Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...December opens with an article on "Lessons from the Football Season of '97" by W. H. Rand, Jr., '98, captain of the Harvard nine. He outlines briefly the conditions and systems of training at the four leading universities. Harvard and Princeton started the season with a large number of old players and endeavored to keep their elevens intact and to develop team play. On the other hand, Yale and Pennsylvania started with green players and pursued the policy of giving their teams hard, fierce work. No attempt is made to argue for or against any system of training. The writer...
...old stand at Foster's is the best place in Cambridge to get a good lunch. All kinds of temperance drinks...
...track behind the Gymnasium where it was last year so it has been laid just back of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The length of the track is exactly one-eight of a mile instead of being seven yards short of one-seventh, the length of the old track...
...finish at the same points as in the four-mile course for Harvard-Yale races in former years the survey shows that after the first half mile the course follows the centre of the channel thus giving every indication that the new course would prove even faster than the old. Measurements were taken at different points on the river, with the United States Government map of the Thames as a guide. The width of the river from shore to shore is given as follows: Start, 2000 feet; 1-2 mile, 2500 feet; 1 mile, 1250 feet; 1 1-2 mile...
From the start the new course runs 1 1-2 miles straight away; at the 1 12 mile it is 400 feet west of the old course and then deflects to the east (left) side of the old course, for 3-4 mile, and thence 1 3-4 miles straight away to the finish, which is just north of the Thames River draw-bridge. This course offers a depth of water after the first half-mile varying from 18 to 50 feet...