Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many teams were entered that it was necessary to run trial heats. In the Crimson's heat, Princeton's fast quartet was never headed, though pressed hard by the M. I. T. team. The University and Dartmouth were left to fight it out alone and J. A. McCarthy '22, anchor man for the Crimson, was unable to overcome the Green's lead. The Freshman medley relay was over a distance of 1 7-8 miles. Here though the Crimson team trailed they received a point as only five colleges were represented...
...Green, made up this distance, passed Quinn in the fourth lap, and gave A. J. Coakley a five-yard advantage over J. A. McCarthy '22. McCarthy showed his gameness by sticking at his opponents heels, finally, on the last lap passing him and starting J. W. Burke '23, anchor-man for the University, three yards ahead of V. F. Shem Burke, showing perfect form and a world of power, ran like a machine, steadily pulling ahead of his man until at the finish he clinched the race with a ten-yard lead...
...Boardman, lead-off man for M. I. T., the Crimson yearlings, though hard pressed throughout, never relinquished their lead. Murphy passed on a five-yard advantage to W. L. Chapin, who in turn started L. L. Robb three yards ahead of G. L. Bateman. T. R. Hull, anchor man for the Crimson, was eight yards away when G. J. Leness of Tech received the baton...
...time the M. I. T. runners were never headed. Poole handed over a nominal lead to W. L. Smith, who running against W. C. Bennett '23 increased it to 20 yards. H. W. Howe '22 lost 30 yards more to W. B. Gurney, and J. W. Quinn '23, running anchor for the University, was able to make up only ten of this against Yardley Chittick, the Tech opptain, who crossed the line in last time, 3 minutes, 35 2-5 seconds...
...Crimson fought bard, giving only two yards to J. Gelifus, but G. Page increased this lead to ten yards over L. L. Robb. A. F. Jones, running third for the Freshmen, lost 15 yards more to R. W. Hodgkins, the Eli runner, and H. T. Dunker, the Crimson anchor, lost ten more to C. Page of Yale, who finished in 3 minutes, 41 seconds...