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Length over all, 51 feet; beam, 7 feet 9 inches; square stern; timbers and frames of selected white oak, planked with white cedar in two thicknesses, the inner layer 1-2 inch, outer planking 5-8 inch; copper-fastened and riveted through timbers; garboards and upper strake of white oak; stern and planksheer of selected teak; decks laid in narrow strips of white pine; coaming for cockpit of quartered oak. In the after end of the forward cockpit is a bulkhead, forward of the boller bulkhead, in which is placed the steering wheel, this space is the full width...
...expects three hundred men to come out for the team tonight. The battery candidates will begin work in the cage tomorrow and it is thought that eight or ten couples will come out for this work. The rest of the squad will begin practice next Monday afternoon. A new layer of dirt has been put on the floor of the cage, which has been prepared for the spring practice by Trainer McMaster...
...gridiron, which promises to be most satisfactory. After laying out the gridiron and the diamond, room was found to lay off three practice fields for this fall, so that ample room is afforded for developing the various football teams. The track is completed, with the exception of the top layer. This will not be put on till next spring in order that the layers already on may have time to settle...
...field to obtain room for an extension of the track. After leveling and removing all dirt from the drain trenches the whole will be filled to an average death of six inches with clean gravel, and the surface loam will then be replaced, covering the gravel with a layer of some ten inches. The gridiron will be sodded some time in August and will probably be quite ready for use in October. The diamond will be located on the southern corner of the field, where the soil is well drained and the surface nearly level, so that very little work...
...running track it is proposed to have a foundation of 18 inches of heavy stone. Over this a layer of finer crushed stone will be placed, and the whole will receive the usual cinder covering. The practice fields will be rolled and graded somewhat, but not much work will be done until the necessity for it appears, since the only really damp portion of the field is, as we have seen, that area near the middle portion of the old gridiron which was usually too slippery for satisfactory work. The whole field will ultimately be surrounded with trees, and when...