Word: winded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia was confident of victory, backing her crew with heavy odds. The fact that Belshaw was slightly ill on the day before the race rather encouraged Columbia, who, however, were very much sobered by the excellent time made by Harvard in a practice pull on Tuesday. The wind early in the morning was light, but just before the start it freshened up, so that the sea was very choppy, which, of course, greatly lowered the time. In the drawing for the courses, Harvard received the west course, the course which she had in last year's Yale race. Columbia took...
...contestants, but the pace Morison set was too much for the others and by the second lap he had a long lead with the other contestants strung along for a distance of a hundred yards. It was expected that Morison would beat the record but he had a strong wind against him on the home stretch and no contestant was near enough to urge him. He crossed the line in the fine time of 4 minutes 38 3-5 seconds, within a second of the record, and beating his own record by two-fifths of a second. Carr of Yale...
There were eight entries for the running broad jump. Soren covered 20 feet 6 inches and won first prize; Mapes, '85, of Columbia, second. The record was somewhat impaired by the wind...
...Soren in the running high jump excelled any of his previous records, and in Mr. Atkinson, who cleared five feet six inches, we have an excellent man to take his place next year. The running of Mr. Goodwin and Mr. Morison was beyond all expectation, as the high wind led us to hope for no such records. Mr. Kip did better with the hammer than he has ever done before, and will make a good showing in his events next Saturday...
...fourth lap Root passed Walker. In the fifth lap Morison increased his pace evidently hoping to lower his record, finishing in 4 min. 41 sec., with Walker, who had passed Root in the last half of the last lap, 15 4-5 sec. behind. Considering the strong wind, Mr. Morison's run was better than any of his previous performances...