Word: ageing
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...verge of winning national recognition, is quickly joining crew and squash as a Harvard prestige sport. For McCurdy and his team, it's an unfamiliar position. Though few realize, the Crimson was once the Goliath of American track--back in the days that history books call the Golden Age of Harvard track...
Four years later the Golden Age began--and contiued for more than a decade. In the 1880 Intercollegiates were moved to Mott Haven, New York. Harvard--still a team without a decade. In the 1880's Intercollegiates were moved to Mott Haven, New seconds, and three thirds...
...early 1890's, Harvard's domination of college track began to wane. The Golden Age began to tarnish after the Crimson's 11th Intercollegiate title in 1892--its last for a long time. For the next four years, Harvard struggled to stay in contention. Then, in 1896--its last pressive last gasp effort that would be followed by a sustained slump in the track department--Harvard's tiny contingent to the first of the modern Olympic Games in Athens picked up five gold medals...
With the turn of the century, the Golden Age breathed its last, and Harvard track slipped into obscurity. There have been the individual greats along the way since--athletes like Edward O. Gourdin '21, whose 25'3" broad jump in 1921 set a wrold record. But the days of Harvard-the-team-power are long gone--or were until this year. Who's to say but that the next few years may prove to be the "Renaissance" of Harvard track...
Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age, which he calls "a hot and angry" appraisal of the Boston public school system...