Word: dyrol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile was billed as the biggest track event of the season, a duel at Modesto, Calif, between Australia's Herb Elliott, the best in the world, and lanky Dyrol Burleson, the best in the U.S. But five minutes before starting time Elliott withdrew because of a strained knee tendon, and suddenly Burleson was left with no one to whip but a bunch of also-rans, including a distance runner named Jim Beatty, 25, who felt so out of place in the event that he frankly said: "I'm no miler...
...best, have been an indifferent lot in recent years. But in Los Angeles last week, a lithe (6 ft. 1 in., 155 Ibs.) sophomore from the University of Oregon proved that the U.S. might at last have a miler who could run with the Australians and Europeans. His name: Dyrol Burleson...
Back home in the lumbering town of Cottage Grove, Ore. they remember Dyrol Burleson as the spindly-legged kid who was always running-to the grocery, around the reservoir, or just down the road, with his mother pacing him in the family car. Burleson developed so fast that he set a national record of 4:13.2 for the mile in high school. Last year Burleson warmed up by making a national mile record for freshmen (4:06.7), then switched to the 1,500 meters to set an A.A.U. championship record (3:47.5) and thump Russia's best...