Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preliminaries due to the short time given for entries, but for the finals tomorrow night only four pounds is to be allowed. For the boxing, two pounds overweight will be allowed in both the preliminaries and finals. Participants who have not done so already are to weigh in before the bouts, and wrestlers who are going to compete in the finals will weigh in again tomorrow before 3 o'clock. There are 29 men taking part in the boxing and about an equal number in the wrestling bouts...
...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 our country's life and ideals by adopting universal military service--by all means! Why can we not weigh the issue? If it is humanity, will not more American lives be lost in war than by conditions as at present, or as they would be under such terms as could be obtained in return for a resumption of relations? A declaration of war will secure us no new rights...
From present indications Yale's 1916 football team promises to be the heaviest in several seasons. No team since the giant combination captained by Gordon Brown in 1900 has tipped the scales for more pounds. Three of the rush line weigh more than 200 pounds each, and one of the backfield is close to that weight. Zenner, from the freshman team last year is the champion heavy-weight of the combination, weighing 225 pounds. Zenner is rated as companion guard to Captain Black, another of the 200 pounders. The rush line alone averages 194 pounds...
...that used by Dr. Sexton last year lies in the simplicity of the former's method as compared with the emphasis on detail as shown by Dr. Sexton. Coach Mitchell makes no use of target work, of exercise with chest weights, or of the practice of having all men weigh themselves every evening, prominent features of Dr. Sexton's method last year...
Special 12-ounce gloves will be furnished by the H. A. A. for the use of the boxing squad. Gloves of this weight will minimize the possibility of any physical danger. More men are wanted who weigh under 135 pounds, or over 170 pounds. Light-weight men should remember that they will be matched only with partners of their own weight, and therefore will not be at all handicapped in the tournaments...