Word: yd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Harry T. Roll, 20, junior at Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.); at Colgate, struck by a bolt of lightning, as he completed a 100-yd. dash on the athletic field cinder track...
...This data was not particularly startling. One letter given out told that an enlisted man of the U. S. Navy had been aboard a British ship during practice two years ago and had seen the British ships firing at ranges of 30,000 yd. by flooding their blisters. Another told of a war game conducted by the Board of Strategy at. the Naval War College at Newport, R. I., m which, a miniature British fleet sank the entire miniature U. S. fleet...
Using his legs for locomotion, the fleetest man in the world can make the earth flash by beneath him at the rate of some 10½ yd. per sec. for a few seconds. Using his brain and an aeroplane, he has so far learned to travel about 13 times as fast-137 yd. per sec. for many minutes...
...Substitution of a 3-yd. line for the 5-yd. line on try-for-point after touchdown...
...forward passes, ineligible men of the offense must not intervene or "screen" the pass; receiver must not go out of bounds and return to take the throw; thrower must, not intentionally ground the ball, failing a free receiver. (For this offense, the last 10-yd. penalty in the rule-book was increased...