Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, the freshmen will face the Dartmouth freshmen, who won the winter meeting of the two teams. This meet also rates a toss...
...field events, however, both Cornell and Penn outscored the varsity. John DuMoulin provided the lone varsity win as he took the hammer with a toss of 177 feet, 61/4 inches, with Jim Doty third at 162 feet, 33/4 inches. Dick Williams, vaulting 12 feet, 6 inches, could gain only a tie for third in the pole vault...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...
Johnson, filling the huge void caused by the absence of both Jim Doty and John DuMoulin, excelled his best-ever toss by 15 feet to win the event at 157 feet. Abbott made up for the loss of Doty by winning the shotput at a shade under 46 feet...
...this season the Princeton nine has been rather erratic in the hitting and fielding departments, but according to Crimson coach Norm Shepard, the Tigers have "about the strongest pitching in the league." But granting the Crimson a slight batting edge, the game has to be rated a toss...