Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...syndicate has purchased 1,000,000 feet of land near the Back Bay park to provide grounds for an open air athletic association. The syndicate intends to build a half-mile bicycle track, a grand stand and base-ball grounds, tennis courts, and everything requisite for all kinds of athletic sports...
...regular practice. The batteries alone are allowed its use; but in about three weeks the nine will begin practice in earnest. At present a light system of training is undergone, the work consisting in the use of the weights, dumb-bell exercises, vaulting, and a short run on the track...
...which has just appeared, is Part II of "American College Athletics." R. M. Hurd is the contributor, and has written about Yale University. After a brief general history of early athletics at Yale, he takes up in detail the records of the elevens, the crews, the nines, and the track athletes, since 1876, and the lawn tennis players since 1883. The illustrations include full-page photographs of the champion crew and nine of '88 and the '87 eleven. There are also some interesting instantaneous photographs of hurdle jumping and pole vaulting. "A Russian Wolf Hunt" is an exciting story...
...athletic students during the first decade was 2.55. The averages of the members of the various university teams were as follows: Crew, first decade, 2.56, second decade, 2.52. Nine, first decade, 2.59; second decade, 2.40. Football eleven, first decade, 2.51; second decade, 2.68. The average of the track athletes during the past five years has been 2.68. It will be seen by these figures that the averages of the crew and nine fall below that of the non-athletic men, while those of the football men and track athletes rise above it. Both athlete and non-athletes show a gain...
...buildings, sites for a kindergarten, a primary school, an advanced school, and a school of industry and physical training, and a direct avenue between the central quadrangle and a proposed station of the Southern Pacific Railway, bordered by groves and promenades, with space in the wheelway for a double-track street railway...