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...Pratt athletic field at Amherst there will be a half-mile oval track, and a quarter-mile straight away track. The base ball diamond will be within the oval and the tennis courts in other parts of the twenty acres...
...could not, of course, continue long before the 'varsity essayed the same tactics. It therefore became regarded as a disadvantage to have possession of the ball in a scrimmage. To avoid this the scrubs again cudgeled their brains and evolved the trick of kicking the ball sideways instead of straight through. This protracted the scrimmage, but as soon as the centre men became started upon the idea of kicking the ball anywhere rather than through, they all developed too great a knack of getting ahead of the ball or 'off side.' Then two methods of play were started one being...
...hounds, with J. D. Gorham, '90 as master. The trail was laid through Harvard square, then turning sharp to the left through Norton's woods and up to Porter's station. From here the trail ran parallel to the railroad track as far as Fresh pond, then turning sharply, straight back to Highland street, where the break was made. The hares reached the gymnasium at 4.30, and twenty minutes later the hounds began to arrive. H. P. Williams was first, followed by Hockstadter, R. Stone and Blake. The hares had to give the hounds fifteen minutes, which they were able...
...third annual handicap road race of the Bicycle club will be held Friday November 15. The course extends from Mount Auburn bridge to Watertown; across the river, then to the right straight through West Newton to the great sign boards; here it turns sharply to the left and follows Beacon street to Walnut street where it turns again to the left through Newton Centre to Lowell street. Then it takes the right and returns to Mt. Auburn bridge over the same course. The distance is fourteen miles...
...Rowing at Cambridge has for sixteen years been under the charge of Mr. Herbert Rhodes. The principles of his system are: The hands must shoot away smartly from the chest; as they release the body for the swing which actually (though not theoretically) begins before the arms are perfectly straight. In any case the swing begins before the slide and carries the slide forward with it, both being slow and steady, especially the slide, and the forward movement both of slide and body must end at the same moment. In the moving forward let the body be well balanced...