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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meters was 29 min. 10.4 sec., nearly a minute slower than Australian Ron Clarke's world record. And for half the race, there was Clarke striding rhythmically, effortlessly around the track, burning out his challengers. With a badly twisted ankle, Gerry Lindgren was struggling just to finish, and the crowd in National Stadium waited patiently for Clarke to shake the other also-rans: Tunisia's little Mohamed Gamoudi, Ethiopia's Mamo Wolde-and Billy Mills. But on and on they went, matching stride for stride, lapping stragglers, jockeying for position. Clarke was in front going into...
Suddenly, as an astonished roar erupted from 75,000 throats, Mills turned on his finishing kick, tried to pass-and got a dig in the ribs that knocked him off stride. Once more, he came on, and now Tunisia's Gamoudi blasted past, stiff-arming the American to one side in a tangle of flailing arms and legs. Mills stumbled, recovered, and dashed forward again. Arms pumping, legs churning, his face an agony of effort, he raced past Clarke, past Gamoudi, past the finish line-to win by four yards, set a new Olympic record...
Princeton, unlike Yale, has had a tendency to start fast and finish slow in recent years. Last season they beat everybody until Harvard beat them, then lost another game and had to come from behind to tie Dartmouth for the title...
Such unorthodox tactics did little to aid the Big Red cause. By the time the half-shod Byard reached the finish line, four Crimson runners were there ahead of him. Dave Allen took second place, captain Bill Crain third, and Jon Chaffee fourth...
Trailing these four intruders was a horde of seven Crimson runners, all of whom crossed the finish line before the Quakers or the Lions could place a third...