Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sends its runners on to the Stadium track. Saturday in the thirty-fifth dual meet between the Crimson and Blue one of the closest meets in recent years should result. Counting up the tallies conceded to each team in undisputed events seems to throw the final decision into the dash feature...
...last three events of the meet at New Haven last spring the University was leading the Blue by three points, with victory in sight, for the half-mile and the 220-yard dash were figured as Crimson events, with Captain E. C. Haggerty '27 and A. H. Miller '27 entered. Haggerty had already won the mile against fast competition, and found the pace of the half-mile too fast, while Captain Paulsen of Yale ran wild for a win over Miller in the furlong. These events and the low hurdles decided the meet, which fell to Yale...
Penn. As a pistol shot started the 175-yard dash at Philadelphia, Charles Paddock jumped away from the line while the nearest spectators leaned over the brick wall of the grandstand to watch him. Badly made and softened by dampness, the wall broke and onto the track tumbled spectators and debris. One old man fell square into the path of Paddock who jumped over him and then swerved to avoid debris, pounded on to cross the finish line in 17 2/5 sec., a world's record...
Jack ("Ruth") Elder, Notre Dame halfback, won the 100-yard dash; the runners of the University of Illinois won three relays and finished second in two others; Walter White of the Kansas Teachers College broke the track record when he tossed the shot...
...fields of sport not so close under the public eye the decks are cleared for action. To athletes of the Massachusetts schools who are running on the Stadium track Harvard extends a welcome. A spring runner within the University has their chance for a brief dash down the course of glory. The Freshman baseball team, the tennis, golf, and lacrosse teams are throwing aside their training clothes for the battle. For weeks the drama has been in rehearsal: the audience is ready, and the curtain rises today...