Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Spiked running shoes and cinder running paths are English inventions, and hurdle racing, shot-putting and hammer throwing likewise originated in the British Isles; yet, with all its just claims of priority in track and field events, England has never shown any marked superiority...
Lewis prepared for college at the Harverford School, where he won his letter on the cinder path in the mile and the half-mile. In the fall of his Freshman team through a successful season. The next fall he was elected captain of the informal team, but left for an army training camp before the season was completed. H. D. Costigan '20 filling his place...
...Phillips Andover Academy, where Moore prepared, he did not take part in work on the cinder path. He entered, College in the fall of 1914, and was a member of the 1918 Freshman track team. He ran the dashes on the University team in the following spring, but did not receive his "H" at that time. In the season of 1916-17 Moore took part in fall and winter track, but entered the service in April, and did not return to College until late this winter...
...especially at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell in the East, the athletic season is not considered a success unless a winning track team is developed. Certainly there ought to be greater interest in track here, for Harvard has excellent facilities and able coaches, besides having the fastest cinder track in America. With such splendid opportunities, every normal undergraduate, who is not suited, either by his physique or by his adaptability, for another major sport, should not be backward about making use of the two legs with which he is endowed...
Coach Donovan will give the distance runners a two-mile tryout on the cinder track in the Stadium at 5 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of sizing up the material and choosing the best men for the R. O. T. C. marathon relay on April 19, in which the University Corps is to enter a team of ten runners. A large proportion of the men chosen for the run of Patriots' Day will undoubtedly be Freshmen, for the 1921 team is unusually strong in distance...