Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association, on Saturday, George Buntin broke the intercollegiate record of Coxe of Yale in the hammer throwing by 2 ft. 3 3-4 in., making a throw...
Harvard won the second game in the championship series with a clean score of 8 to 0. The Lehigh team was even more at our mercy than was Harvard at Cornwall's mercy on Friday, and it took scarcely ten seconds after the game began for Blodgett to throw the first goal. From that time on the score rolled up steadily, and almost every man on the attack had a chance to throw a goal. Blodgett made two more goals, Hewes three, and Kilvert and Towle one each, The defence did not have much work to do, and soon...
...Yale, Stagg led off with a beautiful single to right field and stole second. McConkey followed with another hit and Stagg went to third. Calhoun hit a foul to left field which Knowlton caught, but in returning the ball to the plate made a wild throw and Stagg scored. Dann hit a hot liner to Quackenboss who only succeeded in touching it with one hand. Hunt followed with a fine base hit, Noyes going to third. McBride and Stewart both struck out, closing the inning-2 runs...
...special half-mile race, Priest winning in 2m. 14 3-5s. The quarter-mile was the next event. Wells, L. S.; Sturgis, '90; Hunnewell, '90; and Stead, '91, were the starters. Wells won in 51 3-5s. Sturgis was second. Gibson, '88, gave an exhibition hammer-throwing. Five of his six throws were over 90 ft., the other being 89 ft. 11 in. In his fourth trial, he threw 93 ft. 2 in., agam breaking the Harvard record. The regular half-mile run was between Miles, '88; Dana. '88; and Downes, '90. It was a pretty race...
...house was standing when on April 19, 1775, Lord Percy marched up North Avenue with reinforcements for Pitcairn who was retreating from Concord. Within a stone's throw stood the Holmes house in which the poet was born and which was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Law School building. The doors and window sashes are the same that were originally put into the house, and in the transom over the door are five lights of old English bull's eye glass...