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Winthrop scored in every event except the 880 and the pole vault, taking four first places. Leverett likewise missed only twice, and it was this all-round ability that enabled these two Houses to pile up a substantial lead over the others...
...pairs up with two other dangerous high scorers on the Yale team, Captain Bud Miles, who heads the list in total points, and Bod Beckwith, one of the best all-round players in the League...
...good all-round university, Tulane has an illustrious medical school more than a century old, a football team that often tops the Southern Conference, an administration spunky enough to hold up its end of a feud with Kingfish Huey Long after refusing him an honorary degree. An all-round educator, President-Elect Harris was born in Georgia and went to Mercer University there, graduating in 1917, just in time to serve as a Wartime first lieutenant of infantry. After that he studied at Yale Law School, became a Doctor of Jurisprudence, reached his Tulane deanship in 1927. He established Tulane...
...Wingate Cup, a gift to the arvard Athletic Association by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wingate to perpetrate the name and record of Dana J. P. Wingate '14, shortstop and captain of the 1913 and 1914 first teams, is awarded to the best all-round player...
Added to the Olympic program in 1912, the decathlon is a test of all-round athletic ability in which competitors are awarded points for ten events: 100-metre dash, no-metre hurdles, 400-metre run,, 1,500 metre run, broad jump, high jump, shot put, discus throw, javelin throw, pole vault. To build up a respectable score in the decathlon, a track & field athlete need not be particularly able in any one of the ten. Since each of his individual performances is usually outclassed by specialists, an athlete who goes out for the decathlon rarely gets much publicity. And since...