Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elliott, fifth in an international 800 meters Saturday, will run the 880 today, not the mile. Members of the English team hinted as soon as they arrived that Elliott would at best double in the 880 and two-mile, but nothing was said publicly until late yesterday...
After months of anticipation and weeks of ballyhoo, Herb Elliott will not run the mile this afternoon. But the biennial clash between Harvard and Yale on the one hand and Oxford and Cambridge on the other at 5 p.m. in the Stadium will still be worth seeing...
Even before the beginning of the indoor track season last December, Mark Mullin of Harvard was looking forward to a clash with Elliott, the world record holder at 3:54.5, in the mile. After Mullin's 4:07.1 in the Heptagonal Games established him as the greatest miler in Ivy League history, the hullaballoo over his meeting with Elliott began to grow...
...Elliott should provide much of the excitement tomorrow, especially in the mile, where he and Mark Mullin of Harvard should hook up in a scorching battle. The Australian holds the world record in the mile at 3:54.5, and his best clockings for the 880 and two-mile are 1:47.3 and 8:37.6. This year, he won the 880 and the mile in the Oxford-Cambridge dual meet...
...many talents, Elliott became an author on May 25. In his autobiography, The Golden Mile, he wrote, ". . . it's a fact that the warm, soft, synthetic existence Americans lead poses a real doubt about their future. . . A people who so thoroughly modllycoddle themselves must become weaker, spiritually and physically...