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Nichols is a good foot-ball player but loses his head at critical times...
...than we should expect from the depth of the chest, is still lower than it should be. The depth of the abdomen falls in the 80 per cent. class, as do nearly all the breadths and leng**ths, the only exception being the trifling deficiency in the breadth of head, and the slight excess in the breadth of hips. In most persons the horizontal length is about onehalf of an inch greater than the height. This is undoubtedly due to the straightening of the spine and the relaxing of the cartilages while in a horizontal position. In this case...
...with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon the number of times the body was raised without respect to its weight. A tenth of the weight was taken in order to reduce the number of figures that would result from the multiplication. The girths of the head, chest, (natural and inflated), waist, thighs, uppers and fore-arms, these being the parts tested were summed up. The difference between this amount, which was taken to represent the potential strength and the amount found to represent the actual strength, was termed the condition...
...individual, answers to certain questions were solicited. It often happened that these answers would account for some peculiarity of development, or some deficiency in the size of body or limbs, or for extreme muscular weakness that could not by otherwise explained. Immediately before and after the strength tests, the head and lungs were examined and any peculiarities noted...
...brought into the middle of the field and in about eight minutes Wood made the second touchdown, resulting in a goal. Two more touchdowns were made in quick succession by Nichols and Wood, from which goals were kicked by Saxe. A very poor pass by Nichols over Porter's head gave the ball to Amherst within two feet of Harvard's goal line. It looked for awhile as though Amherst would score, but on the fourth down the ball went to Harvard. Good rushes by Butler brought the ball well up in the centre of the field. Again Harvard lost...