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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University tennis team came at the hands of the Princeton netmen, by a score of 5 to 4. Yale ended its preliminary season with one defeat, administered by Princeton, 6 matches to 3. The University golf team weathered its early season with only one black mark on its record, when it lost to the Tigers, 7 to 2; the Eli linksmen had a similar fate, dropping no encounter except that with Princeton, and that to the tune...
With such an even record behind each team, the netmen will attempt to attract crowds from the Intercollegiates on Soldiers Field by a display of the best tennis which has been offered spectators at Divinity Courts this season. Yale's number one man and captain. Charles Watson III, promises to give the University leader, J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, a stiff contest in the lead-off match. The rest of the University team will line up as follows: singles, G. H. Perkins '26, L. H. Gordon '27, P. M. Lenhart '27. L. O. Pratt '26, and W. T. Smith...
...first I.C.A.A.A.A. record to fall was the shot put mark, which Houser the Southern California phenomenon shattered with ease. His heave of 49ft, 11 3-4 in, bettered the old mark of 49 feet 9 5-8 inches set by Ralph Hills of Princeton at Philadelphia last spring. Gerkin of California placed second, Hoffman of the Stanford Cardinals was third, Alekski another Trojan took fourth, and Pratt, the Crimson weight tosser captured the last qualifying place...
...matter of stolen bases, the team has shown no progress during the week. The total for the squad still stands at 22, the figure chalked up a week ago. Todd, Zarakov, and Jones are still the leading base stealers, each of them with four thefts to his record...
...Houser breaks the record this year it will be the first time in nearly 40 years that the record will have been broken three successive years, and probably will mark the first time in any meet that 49 has been broken by the shot-put winner for that many years. HOW SHOT PUT RECORD HAS CLIMBED UPWARDS IN 50 YEARS ft. in. 1876--Mann, Princeton 30 11 1-2 1877--Larkin, Princeton 33 1879--Larkin, Princeton 33 8 1-2 1880--Moore, Stevens 35 1 1-4 1882--Moore, Columbia 36 3 1884--Reckhart, Columbia...