Word: flash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain A. H. O'Neil '28, W. C. Poet '28, and R. P. Porter '29 are entered in the trial heats of the 880-yard run today. Their spectacular race against Hogan of Yale, which resilted in forcing the Yale flash to a third place in this event, promises outstanding performance by these Harvard half-milers. Edwards of N. Y. U., Wakely of Bates, and Offenhauser of Penu State are the fastest opposition they will have to meet...
...ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. Before the Senators arrived, there strode into the room a figure in blue serge and buttoned shoes, carrying a tan topcoat. The figure wore an almost white fedora hat instead of its traditional brown derby that was instantly recognizable, by the flash of gold in the smile, the jaunty salute to the newsgatherers, as Candidate Smith. When the Committee entered, this Candidate, minus fedora and topcoat, put his thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with his cigar at a happy angle. The front feet of the chair turned...
...course, tell you what men in my opinion should do well on their past records. In the 440, there is, above all, Yale's flash Launcelot Ross who won the quarter against Pennsylvania in 48 seconds, for a new Yale record. When a man gets down to 48 seconds, he can't be left out of any dope sheet no matter what the meet may be. Other good men seem to be Engle, a Yale sophomore, and the trio who raced each other last Saturday in the Dartmouth, Colgate, Syracuse meet. I mean Barbuti, of Syracuse. Swope of Dartmouth...
...course there is Borah, the Southern California flash, who may rise to any heights if he is fit." Coach Farrell Yold a CRIMSON representative in the first of a series of discussions on the Intercollegiates. But the rest of the field, while it is far from slow, is hardly in Borah's class...
...renowned California flash broke his latest, and incidentally ninety-fifth, record on Saturday afternoon at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, when he sprinted and vaulted through a crowd of prostrate spectators and broken masonry for a time of 17 and 2-5 seconds in the 175-yard dash...