Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax of a series of Business School inter-dormitory basketball games two faculty teams played a draw with the champion Mellon Hall team last night and a team made, up from the losing dormitories. Each faculty team played for one half of the usual time, each period ending in a 14 to 14 draw...
...legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion, has an ideal stride for indoor track but he has only recently recovered from an attack of bronchitis. He withdrew from the 1,000-yd. race and placed only third in the two-mi, steeplechase. To some of the foreign athletes, however, boards were new. Seraphin Martin of France was second...
...record book as well as in the pine track: the 70-yd high hurdles, and the 1⅞-mi. relay. Lanky, pale-faced Percy Beard of Alabama equalled the world record in both his heats for the hurdles and then led dark-haired Lee Sentman, last year's champion, and Gene Record of Harvard, intercollegiate outdoor champion, in the final. His time of 8.5 sec. took one-tenth of a second off the U. S. record. The Penn Relay team won their race easily. They were anchored by Carl Coan who, generally late for practice, is seldom late...
...ahead at the wire. Another Pennsylvanian, Bill Carr, ran a dead heat with Johnny Lewis of Detroit City College in the 300-yd. race and won the runoff. In the 1,000-yd., Ray Conger had to beat George Bullwinkle, intercollegiate one-mile outdoor champion, and wise fans said he could not do it. They knew how Bullwinkle-a pacemaker as well as a finisher-liked to beat a finisher like Conger by getting so far ahead that no sprint would catch him. But this time Conger stuck to Bullwinkle's heels. Bullwinkle never got more than three yards...
Next appointment was that of Henry Emerson Tuttle, curator of prints. Last week a third was announced: Dean of Men Alan C. Valentine of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore graduate (class of 1921), Oxford Rhodes Scholar, Rugby player and coach of the champion U.S. Olympic Rugby team at Paris...