Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football team enters the game with the Yale freshmen this afternoon with a decided advantage in weight over its rivals. The Harvard Freshmen average 178 pounds to their opponents' 174, but the greatest difference is in the comparison of the lines. Yale's line averages 179 pounds per man while the Freshmen average is 191 pounds. The Freshman line from tackle to tackle totals the enormous figure of 200 pounds per man, while Yale's line would ordinarily be a very heavy one, with an average of 187. In the backfield Yale has a two-pound advantage...
...familiar with Harvard's style of play, with an inexperienced eleven, having only a second-hand knowledge of Princeton's tactics. Tufts had beaten Tufts the following week, 3 to 0. On the strength of that record Princeton should have been the favorite. Man of man, the advantage in weight, experience and skill was undoubtedly with Princeton as it was in the contest a year ago. But the betting odds told another story. They favored Harvard--and logically. For past experience supported the assumption that the Harvard coaches would be able to weld their raw material into an offensive...
...illustrated); Charles B. Davenport -89, of the Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution, on "Heredity of Stature," (illustrated). A. G. Webster '96 of Clark University, on "Practical Test of a New Phonotrope"; G. P. Baxter. '96 and H. W. Starkweather, of the University, of "A Revision of the Atomic Weight of Tin"; T. W. Richards and R. S. Davis '07, of he University, on "improvements in Calorimetric Combustion"; T. W. Richards and C. Wadswroth 3d, '13, of the University, on "Further Study of the Atomic Weight of Lead of Radioactive origin"; Gilbert N. Lewis '96, of the University of California...
...University football team which will start against Princeton this afternoon will have a slight advantage in weight over its opponents, according to a comparison of the statistics of the probable line-ups. The Princeton team average is 174 pounds to the University's 178 and is lower in all the divisions of the team except the backfield. The Crimson line outweighs the Tigers by 184 pounds to 178, and from tackle to tackle, the difference in favor of the University is 190 to 185. R. Harte '17 and C. A. Coolidge '17, the University ends, outweigh the Princeton ends...
...novice meet will be held next month, which will be open to all members of the College who have not been on the University wrestling team. This tournament will be run in classes according to weight so that everyone will have an opportunity to prove his ability. Cups will be awarded to the winners in the different classes...