Word: forwarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next Mrs. Ferguson came forward. Her inaugural speech was less than seven minutes in length. Quoth...
...world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson, a rival Finn...
...Southern quintet is a dark horse, not having played against highly rated teams yet. Tonight will be the first game of the Northern trip, and whether it is on its way to a fourth championship or not may be seen from its showing against the Crimson. Cobb at forward and Dodderer at center are a pair of hard-playing veterans that will try the Harvard defense to the utmost. The former is especially fast and a sure shot from anywhere within the foul line. He has led his team in scoring for the last two years and Samborski will have...
...many years, the two universities, the oldest in England and the oldest in America have been cordial contestants. Harvard crews and Oxford crews have repeatedly crossed the Atlantic. Harvard athletes have made distinguished records at Oxford. But perhaps the most constant rivalry, and that most looked forward to, has been in track...
...wide divergence in training methods has not settled the question of superiority: the higher nervous tension of the overtrained athlete seems to wipe out the margin of physical advantage. At all events, neither university can ever look forward with confidence to a certain victory, but each prepares soberly for a friendly bout. Harvard is glad that Oxford is sending her track team to the Stadium, and looks forward to next July. When the sister universities will pit their sons against each other in brotherly contest...