Word: straight-away
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...Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America met in Philadelphia on Saturday, and inspected Franklin Field as a possible place for holding the intercollegiate track meet next spring. One great objection to the choice of the field exists in the fact that at present there is no 220 yards straight-away...
...single scull race will be a one-mile straight-away, down stream, starting from the Arsenal Street Bridge. White posts have been driven in the bank to mark the start and finish of the race...
...Stadium will be horseshoe shaped and within will be the football gridiron, surrounded by an oval running track, and also a straight-away track, the finish of which will be in the bow of the horse-shoe. In the space underneath the seats will be built lockers and dressing rooms. There will also be a promenade under the seats with staircases leading to various points in the stands...
...York architects, provide for a horse-shoe shaped structure of steel, somewhat like the stadium at Athens, with seats of stone concrete seating about 27,000 persons. Within the stadium will be the football gridiron, surrounded by an oval running track 440 yards in length, as well as a straight-away track the finish of which will be in the bow of the horseshoe. The outer wall of the stadium will be of brick, in which at frequent intervals arches will be cut, rorming entrances to the seating benches. Owing to the fact that the entrances to the seats will...
...advance of the old one on Holmes Field. The essential difference lies in the introduction of easement curves. The old track has a uniform are at either end, the whole curve being on the same radius. This radius is so short that the sudden pronounced change from straight-away to turn exerts a detrimental effect upon the gait and speed of the runner. In the new track this difficulty has been removed by the introduction of a gradual transition curve in the approach at either end. This transition curve is in three tangent area, each twenty feet in length...