Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terriers have two good performers in events where Harvard is weak. Sprinter Dick Farley will be strong in the 40-yard dash. Farley, who captained the Terrier football team, is B.U.'s record-holder in the triple jump. He will race another football player, the Crimson's Bill Cobb, who came up with a surprise win against Army Saturday...
Bill Cobb, better known as a defensive safety than as a sprinter, won the 40-yard dash with a 4.7 time. He had never run a race for Harvard before Saturday...
...final dash, the escapee must cross the new version of the old Death Strip. This is now, variously, a 100-ft. lawn or a cinder covering, where powerful mercury-vapor lamps make even the most fleeting figure an easy target at night. In some places, there is the added hazard of hidden 6-in. steel spikes. In the unlikely event that he gets this far, the escapee finds himself before the New Wall itself. It is not only smoother and higher (15 ft. v. 9-12 ft.) than its predecessor but is topped by a 15-in.-wide pipe that...
Other top individual performances are expected from Dick Benka in the shot put, sophomores Jim Coleman in the high jump and Bob Galliers in the broad jump, Frank Haggerty in the 40-yard hurdles, and junior Bill Jewett in the 40-yard dash...
...That bloke Wodehouse. Dash it, Jeeves, one would think that at the age of 86 a chap who'd written 70 books about Bertram Wooster & Co. would do the decent thing and sheathe the sword at long last...