Word: dual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan is consciously British or not, the process of acclimating it to American custom and even to New England hauteur is not without anticipation of untold difficulty. In the matter of the British plan there was no tradition to buck. Oxford and Cambridge have concentrated their athletic relations to dual meets with each-other even since the inception of varsity athletics at the two universities. In the matter of the proposed Harvard plan there would be the necessary break-down of nearly a century of tradition. The Dartmouth and Holy Cross games have become a tradition strongly entrenched...
Yale has a great dual meet team. Pennsylvania, with the strongest aggregation in the East, barely nosed out the Elis three weeks ago, but Princeton was snowed under on Saturday by an avalanche of record Eli times and distances. It is impossible to compare he summaries of the Yale-Princeton and Harvard Dartmouth meets without seeing that the Crimson must outdo itself to destroy Yale's paper edge...
High jump--Won by Pierce (D), 6 ft., 1 in. (New dual meet record); second, P. S. Brown '30, 5 ft. 11 in; third, T. Maynard...
Hammer throw--Won by P. N. VonoRx '31, 157 ft. 4 1-2 in. (New dual meet record) second T. H. Alcock '29, 133 ft. 9 in.; third, Crosier...
...dual records were broken in Saturday's games, both in the field events. P. N. Vonckx '31 threw the hammer almost 10 feet further than the previous mark while Pierce of Dartmouth jumped 6 feet 1 inch t add an inch and a half to the dual record. In the latter event P. S. Brown '30 crashed through to second place with a leap of 5 feet 11 inches, higher by an inch than the jump of famed Tom Maynard of Dartmouth...