Word: putters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Allen who rowed on the Yale eight is being tried at tackle on the football squad, while Sheldon, the hammer thrower and shot putter, who was conditioned last spring, has been declared eligible by the faculty and has resumed his old position at guard...
...possible to give some estimate of what the prospects of this year's team are. Of last year's team five have graduated: Ex-Captain Bremer, F. Mason, and V. Munroe, hurdlers; W. E. Putnam, the high jumper; and M. G. Gonterman, the sprinter. K. K. Kubli, the shot putter, who competed at the Harvard-Pennsylvania dual games last year, has also graduated from the Law School. These losses leave the team decidedly weak in both the hurdle races; but with the new material in the jumps, weights and sprints, a better showing should be made than last year...
George H, Brooke is probably the best fullback playing today. His football career began on the Swarthmore College team, where, however, he was never remarkable. He has played on the var-, sity eleven for three years. He is a member of the track team, being a shot putter and a pole vaulter. At Swarthmore he was captain of the baseball and football teams, and won the tennis championship for three years. He weighs 174 pounds, is 5 feet 9 inches high and 20 years...
...will represent the University of California on the cinder track of Manhattan Field in the Mott Haven games, May 25, have been selected. Ten men will make up the party: Frederick Koch, a high jumper, shot putter and half-mile runner, is the captain, and with him will come Patterson, broad jumper; Edgerton, hammer and shot man; Merwin, mile walker; Torrey, low hurdler; Dyer, high hurdler; Bradley, half-mile runner; Barnes, sprinter; Woolsey and Dozier, broad jumpers, the latter being also a wheelman. Their contests arranged for are Princeton, May 11; U. of P., May 18; Mott Haven games...
Four prominent members of the Yale athletic team will be unable to go in the field this spring. They are Swayne and Allen the sprinters, Wade the bicycle rider and Stillman the shot putter...