Word: conneff
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mile, 4 minutes, 15 2-5 seconds, was the most remarkable as it establishes a new world's amateur record for the distance, as well as an American intercollegiate and collegiate record. The best previous amateur performance was 4 minutes, 15 3-5 seconds, made by T. Conneff, at Travers Island on August 28, 1895. Later in the day Jones won the half-mile in 1 minute, 54 2-5 seconds, breaking the intercollegiate record of 1 minute, 56 seconds, made by E. B. Parsons of Yale in 1905. The running of T. S. Berna of Cornell...