Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wave of reform which swept across the country. Colleges everywhere threatened to discontinue the game, unless it were made less rough and more free from opportunities for players to be seriously injured. In the following year the Football Rules Committee, composed of representatives of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Annapolis, and the University of Chicago, was forced by public opinion to join forces with a committee appointed by the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association to reform the sport...
...Distance.--One-minute time limit, 78 feet, Carl G. Lehman, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia...
...relay team lost to the University in February, but steadily improved. At the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival the team equalled the world's record in the two-mile race...
...Meredith, who graduates from the University of Pennsylvania this month and who already holds several world's records, believes that he can better the mile record of 4 minutes 12 2-5 seconds made by N. S. Taber in the Stadium last July. He has announced that he will run two races at the National A. A. U. Championships in Newark in September, the 440-yard dash and the mile. It will probably be at this meet that he will attempt to establish a new mile record. Several prominent track coaches have expressed the belief that Meredith...
Rain caused the cancellation of Saturday's baseball game with Pennsylvania, and, as the Quakers were unable to stay over to play today, the season's record between the two nines will stand with one victory for the University and none for the Red and Blue...