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...School boy. He first reported for track in his senior year. He was one of the also rans on his school team. It was not until his senior year that he developed anything like a decent stride. Then he ran the fastest two miles ever credited to an American collegian. Furthermore, in the race in which he set the present collegiate record of 9.17 4-5, he ran five feet out from the pole, which means that he ran at least 30 yards over the two-mile distance. Had he continued running another year he would, beyond question, have lowered...
Boiling with loyal rage, the Harvard editor fumbled through a back file of the Mercury until he found "Query No. 62" to which his fellow collegian had made reply. This other paragraph read...
Pressmen nodded sagely, though it is unlikely that many of them knew any more than Leverhulme's perplexed trustees about the knock out system. Knockout, in the ar got of the U. S. collegian, is a floating superlative used to qualify any object whose speed, efficiency or sex-appeal appalls rhetoric. In England the pressmen soon ascertained it is something else entirely...
...fault in their husbandry. The fault in their husbandry. The talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred Lamprecht, perhaps, the intercollegiate champion; or Lauren Upson from the Pacific Coast, another rising collegian; Don Garrick, the Canadian junior, who also boxes, and his countryman, C. Ross Summerville, who bounced Max Marston from the 1924 Canadian Amateur...
...might have thrown even farther. Field day exercises were held on the old state fair grounds, now Camp Randall, the throw down the level racetrack, on a day devoid of wind, in the presance of a large assemblage. If this record ever has been equaled by amateur or collegian, I never have heard of it. However, unlike young Osler, I never slaughtered a pig with a stone behind the ear, though in boyhood at Baraboo I let fly a potato at a bibulous shoe merchant just as he was turning into a saloon far down the alley, hands crossed behind...