Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were considered the strongest in history. But in the one-mile relay race on Saturday, the four Crimson runners, Brooks, Robb, Kane and Allen, startled the track coaches by keeping well at the head of the field throughout the race, and finally, thanks to Allen's phenomenal running as anchor man for the University, by finishing scarcely a hair's breadth behind Chapman of Yale, with a time which was less than a fifth of a second slower than the world's record,--3 minutes 22 4-5 seconds. Yale won the race, as had been expected, with its veteran...
...afternoon came in the third lap of the one-mile relay. R. L. Brooks '26 and L. L. Robb '25 had earned a five-yard Crimson lead, when Bates of Dartmouth ran wild against K. M. Rogers '26, and piled up a 30-yard Green advantage which Captain Merrill, anchor, could not overcome...
Victory over the Yale and M. I. T. relay teams in the B. A. A. meet last Saturday was the high light of the sporting world this week. The result of the two-mile race with Yale was never in doubt. J. N. Watters of Winchester, the Harvard anchor man, finishing with a halflap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds. The M. I. T. one-mile relay was a closer affair, the Crimson being able to boost the lead to only 12 yards at the finish...
...start. Geilfuss of Yale and Allen exchanged the pole twice in the early laps of the opening leg, but the latter finally asserted his mastery. Chapin, following him, received a ten-yard lead, and passed it on to his successor, Cutcheon with 15 yards more, while Watters, at anchor, started 40 yards ahead of Chapman, and finished with a half-lap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds...
Yale's triumph in the 1927 relay was the result of a gallant sprint by her anchor man, Hutchinson, which changed a five-yard Crimson lead 75 yards from the tape into Blue victory which was only a shade from a dead heat. But despite this defeat, as near to victory as defeat can be, the 1927 team gave a remarkable performance...