Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard team from trailing far behind the Virginia, Yale, and Holy Cross runners. A bad position at the starting line and a poor get-away accounted in part for the Crimson's failure to place. But a still greater cause was the phenomenal running of Bohannon, Virginia's anchor man, and Chapman of Yale, who streaked ahead to first and second place despite Allen's valiant effort to catch...
Opposition in the medley race will be strong, particularly from Penn State, Yale, Georgetown, and Cambridge University, England. If the first three men of these universities keep a fairly even place, as predictions points that they will, the anchor men, who have the half mile lap, will run a spectacular race. Lowe, the ace of the English two-mile lap, will run a spectacular race. Lowe, the ace of the English two-mile relay team, Heffrich of Penn State, who ran the half mile in 1 minute 55 and 8-10 seconds in the intercollegiate meet last spring, and Watters...
...despite government management the "Leviathan" has won the speed honors of the North Atlantic. But while this record is a pleasing tribute to the efficiency of the "Leviathan's officers, it serves by force of contrast to direct attention to the thousands of public-owned ships rotting idly at anchor in the bays and rivers of the Atlantic and Pacific...
Coach Herbert is giving his men anchor of stiff workout every afternoon. Explanation of and drill in the fundamentals of passing and throwing with the lacrosse, for inexperienced men, occupied Coach Herbert's time yesterday. Practice at present is confined to stick-work and long runs for conditioning. The team will be entirely equipped with new sticks and headgear...
...yard lap, the Crimson chances seemed completely shattered, when Miller pulled a tendon early in his sprint and was forced to hobble around the track for 180 yards, while the runners for Boston College and Yale forger far ahead. Starting with this tremendous handicap, Baggorty, the Freshman anchor man, began to cut down this lead from the time he took up the baton for the mile run. It seemed a hopeless task. But at the start of the last lap he uncorked a terrific sprint which enabled him to nose the Yale Freshman miler out of second place...