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Both figures are exactly one-quarter life size. That of the athlete has been accepted at the Paris Salon, and that of the sprinter at the Royal Canadian Academy, and at the Royal Academy of London...
...bronze statuettes by the sculptor R. Tait McKenzie of Montreal, representing the ideal college athlete and the typical sprinter, were yesterday placed on exhibition in the Co-operative store, where they will remain on view for the next three days. The figure of the athlete was made at the suggestion of the Society of College Gymnasium Directors on the basis of measurements supplied by Dr. D. A. Sargent from about five hundred Harvard students who have during the last ten years been distinguished in various forms of athletics, including football, rowing, and track athletics. It represents an athlete...
...figure of the sprinter represents a runner in position for the starting signal, and is an exact mathematical reduction of the average obtained by measuring about one hundred of the best college sprinters of recent years, including Dufly and Wefers of Georgetown, Long of Columbia, Moulton of Yale, and Bigelow, Haigh and Schick of Harvard. The measurements were supplied by Dr. Paul C. Phillips of Amherst...
...Teas, last year's guard, has just come out, but he is still playing on the scrub and has not earned a place on the University team yet. Jordan, of last year's scrub, will play center. For tackle there is plenty of good material, almost all new. Anderson, sprinter on the track team last year, and Donaldson, a Freshman from Penn Charter, lead the candidates for this position. Mitchell, Corley and Bennett, who was substitute end last year, have also been playing tackle...
...made by the Harvard team was very creditable, and several of the men considerably bettered their records. Foote ran in good form in the two-mile race, winning without difficulty. Antisdell's victory over Grosvenor in the 220 was the surprise of the day. Grosvenor is Technology's crack sprinter, but Antisdell passed him about twenty feet from the finish and won by several feet. The best time was made in the 440, which Fullerton ran on a heavy track in 52 seconds. The summary is as follows...