Word: length
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...unsuccessful try for a goal from the field When the ball was brought out Lee carried it ahead, but it was lost to Dartmouth for interfernce. An exchange of punts now took place without material gain to either side; finally Corbett secured the ball, and running half the length of the field through the whole Dartmouth eleven, scored a touch-down; Trafford kicked the goal. Score...
...course next to the boat house, and took the lead at the start. Crew No 2 followed closely, and the race between these two crews was a pretty one over the whole course. Crew No. 1 drew away slowly, however, and finished with about half a length of clear water between it and No. 2. No. 3 came in a length behind...
...Hallowell, '88, had an interesting article in yesterday's Boston Post on the question of a three years' course at Harvard. The writer thinks that diminishing the length of the course will lower the intellectual atmosphere of the place...
...record for Yale crews over the New Haven course is something like 20 min. 9 sec. Atalanta rowed much the same kind of a race against Yale as Bradford rowed against Harvard last year for a shorter distance. At the half mile they were two-thirds of a length ahead, rowing 33 a minute to 31 for Yale. At the mile point there was clear water between the boats and Yale was ahead. The rather extraordinary thing about the race is that the stroke of the college crew broke his oar and jumped overboard at the two mile point...
...Craigie's bridge the 'varsity was a length and a half ahead, but No. 3 in the '90 boat rowed the whole race off his seat, and at one time four men in the boat were off their seats. The seniors rowed in the big English shell, which was wretchedly rigged...