Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for this record attendance at an early season meet is due to the interest aroused in one event,--the 440 yards dash. In this event the two headline performers will be Allen of Harvard and Captain Bohannon of Virginia...
...week ago these two sensational quarter milers met in the final leg of the one mile relay championship at the Penn Relay Carnival on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Bohannon, starting the final lap with a considerable lead, seized the baton and raced around the track in a remarkable dash which was unofficially clocked at 48 3-5 seconds, winning for his team the one mile championship, and for himself sudden fame as a quarter miler. Allen was far behind when at last the Harvard stick was handed to him, but he ran a sensational losing race, completing the circuit...
Comsequently when the two quarter-milers meet on the stadium track this afternoon they will have an old fend to settle between them. And although Bohannon is slated too win, track enthusiasts are ensured of a race which will be equal of any intercollegiate dash in the country when the two rivals meet. The time is expected to nick 40 seconds. Subordinate parts in this quarter mile drama will be played by Talbot of Virginia and Kane of Harvard, both of whom ran in the mile relay at Philadelphia last week...
...presented by the members of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Athletic Clubs in remembrance of their visit to America in 1901, fill the center section of the case. Another of this group is a tall cup, which Wendell won for performing the remarkable feat of running the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat, long before the advent of the crouching start. Besides these and many medals for winning places in various meets, there are several dozen badges presented to him for officiating at athletic meets as referee or timer after his days as an active runner...
...year he entered college, Wendell won the 220-yard dash at the Intercollegiates. The following year at the same meet he captured three first places, in the 100-yard, the 220-yard, and the 440-yard dashes. That year and the next six in succession Harvard won the Intercollegiates, creating what was called a "golden age". Ellery H. Clark '96, member of the track team for three years, attributed this success to the construction of a new track on Jarvis Field and to the appearance in the college of Wendell...