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...Crimson harriers meet New Hampshire today with a perfectly balanced team, a team which is expected to close the supremacy of the blue and white on the cinder track. Each team has had one race this season, Harvard beating Holy Cross two weeks ago and New Hampshire bowing last week to a powerful team which sent four runners across the finish before the first New Hampshire man crossed the line...
Jaakko Mikkola's harriers will receive their first time-trial of the season today, when Woodard, Channing, Pier, Roys, Schou, and Walker, the first six Harvard men to cross the line against Holy Cross, follow the cinder track to the Watertown Bridge and back, in order to determine the strength of the team which is to meet New Hampshire a week from tomorrow...
...Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst of his long sermon, they were dropping by the hundreds. Ambulances were roaring up & down the cinder paths of the Stadium. Hospital tents were swamped. Fifty extra nurses were recruited from the stands to help out the 100 already on duty...
Meanix had competed on the indoor track team during the winter, but with America's entry into the War outdoor spring practice was discontinued. Meanix would have been voted an "H" in May, 1917, in company with the other members of that year's shortened cinder season, but the Committee believed that he would return to take a degree next year. However off account of his war service and college work he received his degree as of the class...
...occurred to me that TIME might be interested in knowing that Artist John Steuart Curry (TIME, April 10) achieved considerable recognition as an athlete while in [Geneva] college (Beaver Falls, Pa.). On the cinder path his 220 low hurdle and 220 dash are among the most vivid memories of action which the writer can recall. He could always be counted on for first place in these events. His speed was utilized on the eleven as third man on the triple pass, then comparatively new. Invariably he would pass the line of scrimmage ahead of the first man receiving the pass...