Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile relay, run against Holy Cross and Brown, an excellent second leg by Al Ruby gave the Varsity a lead it never relinquished. All three runners were bunched closely together at the end of the first 440 yards, but Ruby's spurt and the loss of a baton by the second Holy Cross runner gave Harvard a five yard lead. Flint was pushed slightly in the final hundred yards, but maintained the same five-yard advantage as he breasted the tape...
Under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the "best in the east," whose intricate formations featured the half-time activities at Soldiers Field this fall, held a final recording session last night...
...boards first for the Crimson was the one-mile relay quartet consisting of Jim Wheeler, A1 Ruby, Dave Hamblett and Wes Flint, running in that order. Behind in the first quarter-lap, wheeler passed the Rhode Island lead-off man on the first turn and Mikkola's baton carriers were never trailing again. Ending the third leg, Rhode Island's Cashman spurted to within a few yards of Hamblett, but a burst of speed by Flint put the race on ice, with a time...
Leading off with the baton in the two-mile will be Waldo Lyon who will clip off an 880 and send Cliff Wharton on his way. Arnold Edelman will run in the third slot and Frank Gurley, in the anchor position, will finish...
...through in the flimsy outfits as the wind whipped through the loose-fitting uniforms . . . the Harvard Band started out with the temporary advantage of a lull in the storm, but the Crimson stands burst into a consternated hum when their drum major, failed in two attempts to catch his baton after throwing it over the goal posts...