Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...securing eight of their points in the relay. This event proved to be the most spectacular race ever witnessed in the Rutegrs pool, the home team snatching their victory by one tenth of a second, in the face of a splendid spurt by A. H. Brackett '22, the Crimson anchor man. At Annapolis, the Navy swimmers registered an easy victory over the University, breaking the intercollegiate record in the 160-yard relay by covering the distance in 1 min., 19 sec. Notwithstanding the fact that L. B. Davis '20 took first place in the plunge, the final score...
...captain of last year's Freshman team, snatched the lead away from Cornell, racing by on the inside of the track. Captain D. F. O'Connell '21, the next runner, succeeded in getting a lead of 20 yards over his two opponents. B. Wharton '22, the University's anchor man, was opposed by E. J. Thomson of Dartmouth and J. M. Watt of Cornell. Thomson closed up on Wharton by a remarkable burst of speed in the last lap, but Wharton won from the Dartmouth star in the last five yards. Watt of Cornell finished third, 15 yards behind...
McCarthy, likewise, fumbled the baton, and F. W. Hillis of Yale succeeded in giving a one-yard lead to T. J. O'Brien, the Yale anchor-man. Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 ran his usual steady race and in the last lap made a desperate attempt to beat O'Brien to the tape, losing by a foot...
...Douglass '21, W. H. Goodwin '20, J. A. McCarthy '22 and D. F. O'Connell '21 will have a hard time in overcoming the Eli quartet, which is one of the fastest of recent years. All of the Yale team are "Y" men, and Reed, who is running anchor, against O'Connell, is one of the fastest runners of the 780-yard distance in the country. M.I.T. has probably the best 390-yard relay team in the country, so that the race between the Technology and University runners promises to be very interesting. The Crimson runners are: R. Chute...
Yale will have an exceptionally fast relay team to compete against the Crimson runners a week from Saturday. Reed, who will probably be their anchor man, covered the half-mile in one minute and 57 seconds in a recent handicap meet at Yale, while Driscoll came in a close second. The other two men on the team will be Hillis and O'Brien. Reed has but recently returned from overseas, and the form he has recently displayed forecasts a close race against Captain O'Connell...