Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for coxswain of the freshman crew only three weigh less than 100 pounds...
...average weight of the 21 candidates for the Yale freshman crew is 163 1-2 pounds, while seven of the men each weigh between 170 and 172 pounds...
...trying for the crew at present. It will be seen from the list below that the average weight is pretty low. To be sure the men are not to be selected upon the basis of weight alone; but it is very easy to see that a man who weighs 170 pounds is vastly better than one who weighs 140 pounds, if he is as good proportionally every other way. It is not expected that a crew of 170 pound men can be selected, but it ought to be expected of a class so large as this that it could...
...yards races and a one mile run; throwing the 16 pound hammer; putting the 16 pound shot; running long jump, and pole vault. The handicapping will be done by E. C. Carter. Besides these events there will be a tug of war, the teams to weigh only 600 pounds; no handicap. The entrance fees of fifty cents for each man in each event should be sent before May 17 to T. W. Church or W. C. Dohm, Princeton College. Gold and silver medals will be given to firsts and seconds...
There are four men in the Yale boat who weigh over one hundred and eighty pounds; there is an equal number in the Harvard crew...