Word: skips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rope jumping is an innovation this year added to the regular morning calisthenics which are now a part of the training. The ropes are passed out at the end of the setting up exercises and even the 230-pound guards are compelled to learn to hop and skip rope again as a muscle loosener...
...Freshmen's diet was mixed a trifle yesterday, and team. A went through an informal workout against Skip Sherlock's protegees from the High School of Commerce. Most of the scrimmage was confined to dummy work with the linesmen half-blocking and touch-tackling. For ten minutes, though, the Yearlings mixed it up with the recent vanquishers of Erasmus Hall, a New York aggregation, scoring rapidly from the start at midfield. These results were encouraging in that several of the most valuable backs and linesmen were out of the play. In fact, the backfield was almost entirely substitutes...
Sherman Landers, winner of the running broad-jump, will probably not enter that event but will concentrate his energies on the running hop skip and jump, in which he has shown great efficiency. He may also try for the running broad jump. Fred Davis, a jumper and sprinter, will probably try for either the running hop, step and jump or the broad-jump. Harold Leber, a freshman, was not eligible for the intercollegiates, but is a sprinter of great promise. He has repeatedly done the hundred-yard dash in 10 seconds, and has done better than 22 feet...