Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Only three pole vaulters reported for practice yesterday, and about the same number of high jumpers. Some 12 men worked out with the 12 and 16-pound hammer with very encouraging results. The runners merely limbered...
...have spoken of the dawn of a new track spirit, but it will be a gloomy, chill dawn if the track squad reporting for the first practice today is not larger than any in the last four years. Two men reporting for the hammer-throw, three for the high jump, and one for the pole-vault will only snuff out the hopeful flame recently kindled. The best of systems must have men behind it. Today is the time for undergraduates to show the committees who have been working for the most efficient plan of direction that the College appreciates their...
...high jumpers, and the latter has done over 22 feet in the broad jump. Braden, the football star, can toss the weight 45 feet and is the logical winner of the shot put against both the University and Princeton. Of the field events, Yale is weakest in the hammer-throw...
...sure point-winner in the short-distance hurdles. Crawford probably will compete in the high jump, and Hingham and Erskine in the pole vault. Kissam, Munsel and Madden compose the broad-jumping squad. Nourse, Gennert and Funk, all football players, will be able to take care of the hammer-throwing contests, and Sinclaire and Cleveland will be the Tiger representatives in the shot...
...number of winning track teams in the past, and no very revolutionary changes have occurred since victories were the rule. With 2,500 men to draw from, the amount of raw material is sufficient for two track teams. Yet in 1915 Harvard had only one entry for the hammer-throw and three entries for the pole-vault in the Yale meet. Last year Harvard entered three men to Yale's eleven in the hammer-throw, and three men to Yale's ten in the high jump. At the beginning of this winter's season fifty men reported for practice...