Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chris Alvord led the Yardlings with dual victories in the 100 yard and 220 yard sprints. He touched out Brandeis' Jerry Zerkin at the tape to post a 10.1 in the 100 yd. dash. The mark tied a Greater Boston record...
Harvard jumped off to an early lead on a sweep in the two-mile run and a one-two finish by Jon Enscoe and Dave Pottetti in the mile. Victories by Ben Lounsbury and Chris Alvord in the 440 hurdles and the 220-yard dash boosted the Crimson total...
...point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans," growled Abrams, "and we can fight by ourselves." It was Abrams in his Sherman tank who led the relief column into Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. It was Abrams again who led the dash to the Rhine, moving so fast that he once surprised a German general and his staff with their boots up on their desks...
Huvelle smashed the oldest Harvard track record on the books when he won the 440-yard dash in 47.7 seconds. The old record of 48.0 was set by William Wilcox against Yale in 1915. Second-place Dave McKelvey also bettered the record by 0.2 second. Huvelle also finished second to sophomore George Patterson in the 220-yard dash...
...Spitz has been a water baby since he was two, when his father, a steel-company executive, was transferred from Modesto, Calif., to Honolulu. "We went to Waikiki every day," recalls Mark's mother. 'You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." After four years in Hawaii, the Spitz family moved to Sacramento, Calif., where Mark got his first competitive instruction at a local Y.M.C.A. By the time he was ten, the youngster held 17 national age-group swimming records, and when...