Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before his fleet-footed protege, Herb Elliott, 20, stepped to the starting line for the mile run at California's Compton track meet last week, Aussie Coach Percy Cerutty bobbled his grey goatee with an expansive boast: "We will set too fast a pace for him and steam...
...floating pronouns, everyone within earshot understood. He was talking about Villanova's Ron Delany, the frail, pale Irishman who, never running faster than he has to, has been almost unbeatable ever since he won the 1,500 meters in record time at the 1956 Olympics. Aussie Elliott was casually planning to race him right off the track. Neither Herb nor his coach showed any concern about the presence of Hungarian Refugee Laszlo Tabori...
...Elliott took off on the heels of Pace Setters Jerome Walters and Bob Shank-land. He turned the first quarter in 57.5, and the speed that was supposed to steam out Delany threatened to burn up Elliott as well. A Negro youngster collecting hurdles at the trackside watched the runners whisk past and chuckled softly: "Look like those cats think it's the 440. Some-thin's gotta give...
...Elliott finished the half in 1:59.3. The pace setters faded, and Delany's bobbing stride began to break apart. He looked more and more like a man in a bowler hat trying to catch a tram. Tabori came on to make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition...
Expansion threatened a bigger, more impersonal College, and one way the Administration hoped to deal with this danger was by a strengthening of the House system. One method would be to reduce overcrowding, and figures like Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, insisted that overcrowding should be reduced before College enrollments swelled. Another was to re-examine the basic amount of soul-searching about this issue...