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This little book contains athletic records in baseball, football, cycling, turf, prize ring, rowing, yachting, intercollegiate athletics, interscholastic athletics, lawn tennis, cricket, track athletics, cross country running, billiards and pool...
...jumping" by Malcom W. Ford in Outing for March, treats of the broad and high standing jump and is a valuable article for the instruction of young athletes. It is clear and practical and explains the methods followed by an athlete who has gained a world wide reputation on turf and track...
...Ground in front of the Carey building is being graded, and turf will be laid out there...
...novel football game will be played in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on March 7. The orchestra will be floored over and covered with soft matting, thus giving a field little smaller than the regulation size, and no harder than the turf. The ball will not be allowed to be kicked, and the game will be strictly a running one. The game will be between the regular University of Pennsylvania eleven and an amateur eleven known as the Rivertons, which will be strengthened by four well-known Princeton players-Hancock,'88, as quarter-back; Cowan, '88, and L. Price...
...agreed by the different members of the association that clay courts instead of turf should be used thereafter and, as a result of this vote, the place of the tournaments was changed to the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Tennis Club, on which all subsequent contests have taken place. The winners of the tournament were: Singles, Knapp of Yale and Brinley of Trinity; doubles, Knapp and Shipman of Yale, and Chase and Pratt of Amherst. By 1886, all the leading American colleges of the East had joined the association. The tournament of '86 gave first prize in singles...