Word: ely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest will start at 2:30 p.m. at the Yale Field. The freshman team also plays the Eli freshman at New Haven tomorrow in a game beginning at the same time
Despite a tremendous effort by Jed Fitzgerald, the Yardling track team lost to Yale, 80 to 60 Saturday. Fitzgerald outran Eli Bill Bachrach to win the mile in 4:23.8, only .3 seconds off Ed Martin's year-old meet record. An hour later, he outran the same opponent to win the two-mile in 9:35.8, and break the meet record by nine seconds...
Landau recalled the days of the incomparable Bob Rittenberg. He plagued Eli coach Bob Giegengack all afternoon, as he entered and won four events for 20 points. More important, however, was the fact that he led Crimson sweeps of both dashes. Landau first won the 100-yard dash in 10.1 seconds, followed closely by Sandy Dodge and Lee Barnes. Then, after he had won the high hurdles in 14.9 seconds, 15 minutes later he came right back to win the 220 in 21.6. Barnes finished second and Dodge third...
Captain Reider, appearing in his last Yale meet, was the unbeatable Reider of old as he won both the mile and the two-mile events. In the former, he outran Eli Jim Wade and romped to an easy win in 4:20.1. In the two-mile, it was Eli John Morrison who shadowed Reider for most of the race only to fall to Reider's finishing kick, which thrilled the large partisan crowd. Morrison was operating under an unusual handicap, however: he had to run the last mile and a quarter minus one shoe...
...varsity won 10 of the 16 events, with Yale winning five and the relay. In the 440, Al Gordon continued his amazing running, fighting off a challenge by Eli Bob Skerritt at the top of the stretch to win by five yards in 49.1 seconds, excellent time in the teeth of the miniature gale whipping around the Soldiers Field oval...