Word: jump
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...over the Morris Park steeple-chase course. Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia will compete. Terms of ten men have been entered, of whom six will run. The length of the course will be six and two-third miles, and will include forty obstacles, consisting of the famous Liver-pool jump, hedges, water jump, and ditches...
...weather and to the fact that some of the men had done some hard work in the morning, it was in the main inexcusable. Both on the offense and defense the team was slow. The three centre men lacked energy and the ability to get the jump on their opponents. The backs were fairly successful on the offense, but gave the line little support on the defense. The whole team played too high. The only improvement noticeable was in Kendall's work. Throughout the season his weakness has been poor defensive work and failure to help in the interference...
Harvard went into the game with only five regular men and a badly matched backfield, but this did not excuse the poor showing. The five regular line men were very slow and listless and usually failed to get the jump on their opponents. The ends were surprisingly ineffective and had little speed. Behind the line several of the men played good individual games, but there was a total lack of co-operation and interference, especially on the line plays, where the runner usually had to shift for himself. The most serious single fault, and one which did most toward making...
...which is scarcely to be expected from a team which has held so much practice. The linemen played too high and failed to get their full strength into the charging, while the backs ran so high that they were easily stopped. The whole eleven was unsuccessful in getting the jump in defensive play, and the second team made several good line gains on this account...
Pole vault--First, A. Robeson '04, actual jump, 9 ft. 6 in., handicap, 1 ft.; second, R. G. Hall '04 9 ft. 9 in., handicap, 6 in.; third, S. B. Trainer '04, 9 ft. 3 in., handicap...