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...rowed at a club must now be in residence at a college at least one year before he can pull a sweep for his college...
...every rowing coach knows that it is the number of strokes rowed to the minute rather than the distance covered that wearies the oarsman. This is occasioned by the fact that rowing is a form of exercise which forces the athlete to take a breath every time he pulls a stroke. The normal respiration of a man is about 17 breaths a minute. Now if the rate of stroke is, say 34 strokes to the minute, it means that the oarsman is breathing twice as fast as the naturally would. Increase the rate of stroke and the strain...
...Yale is rejoicing in a victory over the University. The Blue scored its first touchdown against the Crimson since 1907 when Legore carried the ball across in the second period of Saturday's game. It was by this narrow margin, 6 points to 3, that Yale was able to pull through with its long awaited victory...
Over in the Department of Psychology there is a little machine which, by a curve on a soot-covered surface, indicates the fatigue undergone when a subject tries rhythmically to lift a weight by flexing a finger. The subject bends his finger and pulls, till his finger will bend and pull no more; then the experimenter encourages him by suddenly crying in his ear: "Pull! Pull!" And lo and behold, in the fire of his aroused self, the subject can and does pull! All of which serves to illustrate the importance of mass meetings before, and a wild cheering section...
...establish that superiority required a longer and stronger pull than had been necessary t Harvard for many years. Mr. Haughton has said that the Harvard team of 1916 deserves more credit than any other team which he has coached since 1908. It has travelled further than any other Harvard team of recent years. Yet without the sound football system which Mr. Haughton and his assistants have provided this year's team would have had very little chance of finding itself. It is the tradition of thorough training, unrelenting attention to detail and absolute concert of effort which makes Harvard...