Word: dashmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These more callow members of the Crimson squad will presumably be steadied by a small nucleus of battle-tested veterans from previous track campaigns. Among the latter group are seniors Pete Reider, French Anderson, and John DuMoulin and junior dashmen Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge...
Against the best of Ivy League track, the varsity will be hard-pressed to score in the other events. Pole vaulters Kip Smith and Don Williams, Ed Carter and Art Martin in the hurdles, dashmen Norm Bruck and Art Mayo, and milers Phil Williams and Ken Wilson will have to better their top previous efforts to place high...
Sections of the track were periodically removed so that dashmen and hurdlers would have a clear lane to their finish line. High jumpers rolled over the bar. Seconds after they started, handicap relays were too confused for the casual fan; runners were spread out over the track. And through it all, pole vaulters kept on jumping, and a proud, tux-togged official rode high in the basket of a finger lift to replace the bar when someone missed...
Relatively dark horses Curran and Geick also took first and second in the sprints when favored dashmen Bob Twitchell and Charlie Durakis got away slowly after several false starts...
...dashmen, Chuck Harwood, Bill Geick, Murray Pearlstein, Carter, Bob di Blasio, and Dick Weiskopf have not been timed in the 100. Carter, however, finished second in the IC4A and Weiskopf, Geick, and Pearlstein have proved themselves in the past. The 220, with the same entries, should go well in the warm weather...