Word: throws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of winning track teams in the past, and no very revolutionary changes have occurred since victories were the rule. With 2,500 men to draw from, the amount of raw material is sufficient for two track teams. Yet in 1915 Harvard had only one entry for the hammer-throw and three entries for the pole-vault in the Yale meet. Last year Harvard entered three men to Yale's eleven in the hammer-throw, and three men to Yale's ten in the high jump. At the beginning of this winter's season fifty men reported for practice...
...reputation as a broad jumper of unusual promise. C. F. Batchelder, A. Horween, J. R. Litchfield and T. S. Woods have all been doing well in the shot put in the early practice, and this event should be well taken care of by these men. In the hammer throw L. K. Marshall has been showing exceptional form. He has been throwing the hammer well over 130 feet and is easily the best man in this event. R. G. Hadley and T. S. Woods have also been showing promise in the hammer...
...Yale meet last year, and the graduation of G. G. Haydock '16 has left the pole vault without one good vaulter, and incidentally, the team without a single man who has won his "H" in a field event. The 1919 track squad was also noticeably weak in the hammer-throw, shot put and pole vault, but it has sent men up to the University squad who, with training, should develop into able performers. They are C. A. Clark '19 in the shot put, and A. R. Frey '19 and A. Perkins '19, in the high jump. W. H. Wheeler...
Some of those who are at present shouting in our ears that war is inevitable tell us that our country must go into it from motives of humanity. "Remember our murdered citizens," is the cry. Yes, let us throw ourselves into the conflict and avenge the death of these blockade-runners by the sacrifice of a thousand times their number--doubtless the dead will rest easier in their graves. I us retaliate for our loss of ships by offering our entire merchant marine, out of the war-zone as well as in, as food for submarines. Let us paralyze...
...step: "Throw Me a Rose...