Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furlong showed many pictures and told many stories of famous horses and buckaroos. There was Sundown Jackson, a full-blooded Indian, who at the age of fifty won the world's rough riding championship by sticking to a fierce "outlaw" horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses...
...weighted a ton and a half, and prior to 1914 had thrown every man that got on his back in less than six seconds. In 1914, however, Mr. Furlong succeeded in keeping in the saddle for more than 10 seconds, thus establishing a record and gaining the world's rough-riding championship for that year--the reward which had been promised to anyone who could ride Sharkey for more than the conventional time. Mr. Furlong attributed his success to a study of "bull-riding psychology" by which he was able to fool himself into thinking his "joints weren't really...
...Furlong turned his attention to the West of this country, where he visited several Indian tribes and a year later in 1914 won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the famous bucking bull, "Sharkey". That same year he crossed the Atlantic in a 22-ton schooner and proceeded to the north and west coasts of Africa where he explored many islands...
...recorded yesterday morning by the Seismograph Station at the University. The vibrations began shortly after 8.24, and at about 8.40 became so violent that the needles which record them went off the drum on which the record them is made and put the seismograph temporarily out of commission. A rough computation by Professor J. B. Woodworth '94 makes the distance of the earthquakes about 4470 kilometres from Cambridge, or about 2778 miles...
...Freshman hockey ream won a hard fought game yesterday afternoon on the Charlesbank Rinks when they defeated the Cambridge Latin skaters by the score of 1-0. The contest was featured by many spirited scrimmages which at times resulted in rough dashed of the Cambridge defence and the yearling forward line. The Freshmen showed an improvement in team-work over the Andover game, but there was still room for a closer co-operation. Stick-work was less accurate than in the scrimmage against the University on Thursday, but this may have been due to the fact that the yearlings were...