Word: bonthron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanford's fast Ben Eastman did not even try to qualify for the 400-metre dash. At 800 metres, he was shut out with a fourth place and the race was won by the individual star of the meet, a dark-haired, sinewy Princeton junior named William Bonthron, who did what no runner has done since Cornell's John Paul Jones in 1912, won the 1,500-metre race as well...
Asked about Bonthron the day before the meet, Princeton's Coach Matt Geis said he would run in the 1,500-metre, possibly warm up the day before in the 800-metre heats. Bonthron won his heat in the 800-metre run. Next day he started out by winning the 1,500-metre race in 3:54. An hour later he was ready for a crack field in the 800-metre final. Eastman moved up to the lead in the home stretch, with five men bunched a stride behind him, Bonthron last of the five. While Eastman and Keller...
...Eastman, Stanford's world's record quarter-miler; Keith Brown, Yale jumper who last week helped beat Harvard for the Big Three championship; Bill Bonthron, Princeton's promising half-miler who wears such handsome clothes that they have twice been stolen from his locker at track meets: these are three of the track athletes who will perform in this week's Intercollegiate Championships at Cambridge, Mass, which as usual Stanford or Southern California is favored to win. They and the other entrants in the Intercollegiates last week had reason to consider with awe another athlete...
...Morse of '34, will run for Harvard in the spectacular 800-meter race, facing Bonthron of Princeton, Ben Eastman of Stanford, and Mangan of Cornell, the intercollegiate mile champion...
...Bullwinkle 1L lost the 1000-yard run to Glenn Dawson, a member of last year's Olympic Team, in a close race. Leading until he was 30 yards from the tape, he was finally passed by Bonthron of Princeton, Calahan, of the B.A.A., and Dawson. The time was 2 minutes, 17 3-5 seconds...