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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breaking a 30-30 tie with but three minutes more to play, Coach Wachter's basket-men staged a last minute spurt Saturday night and in a whirlwind finish downed the Yale five 33-30 at the Hemenway Gymnasium, thus triumphing over the Blue quintet for the second time this year and bringing to a victorious close the second season of organized basketball at the University, a season which numbers in all 17 triumphs out of 22 games played...
...permit J. W. Burke '23 to run. The Crimson team was lucky enough, however, to secure the pole in the relay, and with this advantage the running of Percy Jenkins '24, J. E. Merrill '24, J. W. Quinn '23, and J. A. McCarthy '32 should enable the University to finish well in the fore. The Freshman medley relay race is an innovation this year, but 14 colleges have entered teams. Here too the Crimson is handicapped by the loss of J. S. Murphy Jr. who broke his arm last Saturday...
...relays the results were marred by false starts and failure to abide by the rules. Although J. W. Burke '23, lead-off man for the Juniors, beat the starting gun by several yards the Seniors were in the lead after four men had raced, and kept this until the finish. The Sophomores, Juniors, and Freshmen finished in the order named...
...opponents heels, finally, on the last lap passing him and starting J. W. Burke '23, anchor-man for the University, three yards ahead of V. F. Shem Burke, showing perfect form and a world of power, ran like a machine, steadily pulling ahead of his man until at the finish he clinched the race with a ten-yard lead...
...only other University runner to place in the meet was J. A. McCarthy '22, who crossed the finish line in second place in the handicap half mile. McCarthy, who had a handicap of only ten yards had to pass nearly the whole field. He was closing in fast on the winner. D. A. Akin of Boston University, who had a 30-yard handicap when the race ended. B. R. Cutcheon '25, who had an 18-yard handicap came in fifth...