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...Willams College games Mr. Goodrich '85 threw the 20. 1b shot 31 feet 6 inches...
...Columbia A. H. fall games. Derickson won the 220 in 23 4-5 sec, Rickhart '84 put the shot 35 ft. Rushmore threw the hammer 92 ft. 6 in This throw beats the record badly if the hammer was of regulation size but we understand it only weighed 12 pounds...
...best-on record for the quarter (48 3-5) and the half (1:55 3-5), failed to do so. Though heavily handicapped he won in both, time 49 3-5 and 1:58. F. L. Coolidge, Princeton, was second in the half off the 30 yards mark. Bueckberner threw the 56 pound weight 25ft. 11-2in., thus beating the record, and F. P. Murray walked a mile in the best time on record in the world for amateurs, 6:29 3-5. L. Stearns, Princeton, won a closely contested bicycle race in 6:59 for two miles...
...referee, and Atkinson, '85 and Crocker, '85, as umpires. At the beginning of the first half the Unions kept the ball near Harvard's goal. But were prevented from scoring by good playing on the part of Easton. Finally Bradford secured the ball, and after making a good run threw the first goal in fine form, at some 40 yards distance. Soon after play was resumed, a goal was claimed on Simson's throw. But was decided to be wide by Mr. Atkinson. Soon afterwards the ball was thrown down the field a distance apparently of 120 yards, by Reuter...
...notable of these was John Wise, "The first great American democrat." "He had every quality that gives distinction among men. He was of towering height, of great muscular power, stately and graceful in shape and movement; in his advancing years, of an aspect most venerable." On one occasion he threw a famous wrestler in Massachusetts who had desired to test his strength. But he had an intellect proportioned to his strength of body; for in 1687 when the infamous Sir Edmund Andros sent for a province tax, the young minister "braved the tyrant's anger by advising his people...