Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This set of races is the first contest of the kind ever entered by members of the club. The new Cartis Travelair plane, the fastest ship in its class, was taken as par in the light plane handicap. It passed several planes which started ahead of it, and took third prize...
...lightest and fastest elevens seen in Cambridge in recent years ran through a snappy signal drill on the Stadium turf late yesterday afternoon. This team which will represent Purdue against the University this afternoon at 3 o'clock will go into today's game outweighed by almost 14 pounds to the man. What they lack in weight the Westerners will attempt to make up in speed and accurate handling of the ball. Few plays, according to information gathered in the Boilermaker's camp yesterday afternoon, are likely to be directed at the Crimson guards this afternoon. Off tackle slants...
Last week, passengers on the 20-year-old Cunard Liner Mauretania, swiftest pride of British fleets, found themselves in Manhattan only a little more than five days after leaving England-"second fastest boat crossing of all time." The Mauretania's 1924 record of five days, three & one-third hours has never been bettered. Before the Mauretania, new speed champions were built at the rate of twelve every 50 years. But there has been talk, which had become more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long...
...Harvard will have two fast, shifty backs. Two years ago Crosby, as a Sophomore, was the sensation of the University season, but was ineligible last fall. Gurarnacia was a gridiron unknown in his Freshman year, but last season rose from the Seconds and developed into one of the fastest interfering backs and the most accurate passer on the University squad. This pair shoud bother the Vermont defense in today's game...
...cinder path, in the new cage, is ten laps and 40 yards to the mile, and promises to be one of the fastest indoor tracks in the country. The wooden course is just above the cinders, and is 11 laps to the mile...