Word: finishing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...boathouse. On Friday the eight went down-stream to the basin and the boat seemed to go fairly well, but the rowing on Saturday was rather disappointing and the crew seemed to be lifeless. Throughout the work the crew has been trying to acquire a longer and more powerful finish and a low stroke has been maintained. The Freshman eight has improved steadily since its race with the Cornell freshmen. Coach Wray has been paying special attention to the recovery and has been trying to get the men to slow down their slides before the catch in order that...
...Freshman baseball team will play its second game with the Yale freshmen on the University diamond on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. The game will be played earlier than usual in order to finish it before the University team's game with Dartmouth which is scheduled to begin...
...Blumer was badly boxed and had a hard time keeping on his feet. Coming around the straightaway Palmer, Leger and Merrihew had the best positions. The track was crowded, however, and in the fight for places Merrihew was thrown from his balance and fell headlong fifteen yards from the finish. At the very end of the race Blumer found an opening, and by powerful and desperate running threw himself across the tape ahead of Palmer. Leger and Kelley held their positions ahead of deSelding and the two Cornell men and took third and fourth respectively. If fewer men had been...
...first quarter Paull allowed his team-mate Tyson to set the pace. With McGee and Laird of Princeton and Coney of Yale he followed just behind the pace-maker. At the end of the first lap, however, Paull stepped into the lead, and from that time until the finish was never headed or even approached. For a while the two Princeton runners tried to hold the pace, but at the half mile Paull led by twenty yards, McGee was running alone in the second position, while between him and Coney were two Michigan men, Tower and May. On the third...
...third place in the high hurdles and took fourth in the low hurdles. G. P. Gardner, Jr., '10 again pushed Howe of Yale to his limit in the low hurdles, and as in the dual games was beaten only by reason of the latter's wonderful strength at the finish. J. L. Barr '10 cleared 12 feet in the pole-vault, but as both he and Nelson of Yale failed to equal Campbell's vault of 12 feet, 3 1-4 inches, the result was a tie for second. The points for second and third were divided giving Harvard...