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Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: California | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Next year's captain will have a considerable amount of good material for his team, although as usual timber for the field events will be lacking. French, O'Connell, and Smith are Freshmen who look strong on the cinders, and with Luttman and O'Neil should give the Crimson a formidable array of cinder talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESSOR OF TIBBETTS TO BE ELECTED THIS AFTERNOON | 6/4/1926 | See Source »

...hear the winding of aerial horns Thicken the air I gasp to breathe . . . I clinch twin burdens to my fading cinder breast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unknown Poet Pays Memorial Day Visit to Widener Leaving Wreath and Verses Under Sargent Canvas | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

...hurtled into the Soldiers Field sward yesterday afternoon, reminiscences of other track days were beginning to be aired at the Algonquin Club. It was there that the squad of former contestants in I. C. A. A. A. A. meets gathered to discuss their chances in today's old-fashioned cinder events, and to recall their exploits on bicycles which have now become museum pieces and cinders which have long since disappeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Time Iron Men Tell of Days When Hurdles Were Hurdles | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

When Harvard and Yale meet on the cinder track next spring, at the annual Harvard-Yale track meet, the Blue will appear at first glance to be slightly the greater loser from graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE TRACK TEAM LOSES NINE BY GRADUATION--HARVARD, 8 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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