Word: dehart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these precise recorders of significant brevities were being used for the first time to measure the speed of athletic events. While they ticked, the colleges of the Western Conference competed for the annual track and field championships. A pair of great black legs-flying ebony which provided locomotion for DeHart Hubbard, famed Negro athlete of the University of Michigan-pumped down a narrow aisle 100 yd. long. The watches had ticked 9 and 74/100 sec. Hubbard had previously won the running broad-jump with a leap of 25 ft. 3½ in. He scored 10 points, which surpassed the score...