Word: wind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Throughout the day there was a heavy wind accompanied by rain...
GARDEN CITY, LONG ISLAND, Oct. 17.-In the second day's play of the team matches for the intercollegiate golf championship Yale won the championship by defeating Princeton 18 1-2 to 4 1-2. A high, cold wind prevented low scoring. The matches for the individual championship begin tomorrow. The summaries follow, the method of scoring consisting of one point for each individual match, plus one-half point for each hole won: YALE. PRINCETON. Clows, 0 West, 2 Abbott, 2 1-2 Gee, 0 Partridge, 2 Peters, 0 Knowles, 0 Barrows, 2 1-2 Howland...
...territory after a short run. Foster gained six yards through tackle, being held with the ball on the 28-yard line. Apollonio followed with 6 yards, and then Foster made 9 more. After three rushes, Apollonio was forced over for a touchdown, Burr kicking the goal against the wind and at a difficult angle...
...afternoon Coach Kennedy put the university crew over the four-mile course for the third time this season under the watch. The slow time, 27 minutes, does not indicate what the crew is capable of, because the men rowed down stream against wind and tide. The freshman eight raced the university boat for the first two miles and was ahead at the mile flag, but then fell off, passing the second mile flag off the Navy Yard about a length behind. Both crews rowed a slow stroke, except near their finish. The university four-oar went about...
...June 19, 1906--This morning the University eight rowed over the four-mile course under the watch for the third time this season. The distance was covered in 20m., 10s. This is good time, but the conditions were almost perfect and a strong tide and a favoring wind were of material assistance to the boat. The Freshmen raced the University crew for the last two miles, starting a length behind, and finished three-quarters of a length ahead. The Freshman boat went as well as it has at any time this season. The University four-oar rowed over...