Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Club dash from stair to stair...
...hundred yards dash, there were four entries: Messrs. W. W. Kent, '82; E. J. Wendell, '82; C. Stetson, '81; and J. B. Field, '80. Stetson started best, and held Wendell for fifteen or twenty yards, when he was passed by Wendell, whose time was 10 3/4 s. Stetson and Field were nearly even for second and third places...
...hundred and twenty yards dash, Messrs. Wendell, Kent, and Stetson competed; the former winning as he pleased, in 24 1/4 s. Stetson was second...
...yard dash was won by Cogswell of Dartmouth, Simmons of Harvard running a close second. Simmons's friends claimed a foul, which was not presented to the judges, as Cogswell, the winner, was not the man who interfered with him. Simmons was reported to have made the distance in 52 seconds, and it does appear strange that in the race his time was only 55 seconds, while that of the winner was 54 4/5 seconds...
Other events were: Standing high jump, Larkin, Princeton, 4 feet 6 3/4 inches; graduate mile-walk, E. J. McIlvane, University of Pennsylvania, 8 minutes 50 4/5 seconds; graduate 100-yard dash, W. Waller, Columbia, 11 1/5 seconds; half-mile run, C. H. Cogswell, Dartmouth, 2 minutes 12 seconds; two-mile walk, R. H. Sayre, Columbia, 16 minutes 49 2/5 seconds; pole aulting, J. B. Waller, Princeton, and F. H. Lee, Columbia, tied at 9 feet...