Word: furlong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense, it is not difficult to account for the long-standing mark, because this is the day of specialists, and the furlong sprint is an "in between" event. Two hundred and twenty yards is an intermediate distance. If a coach has a real sprinter he usually counts upon him to win both the 100 and 220. As a rule, however, the runner seems to specialize in the "100" and takes a chance, as it were, that his training will carry him through the longer of his sprints "on his natural" as track...
...back and attempted the arduous assignment of beating his rival with a driving finish. In this race he elected to go out from the gun and it was this fact which made the record a possibility. Meredith was at the Harvard man's shoulder as they whisked past the furlong post in 21 4-5 and the Penn runner forged ahead entering the homestretch. Willcox was so spent by his early efforts that he finished fourth...
...dashes, Yale should score ten points to the Crimson's eight, with Miller counted upon to annex the 100-yard dash and take second to Norton in the furlong. Kane and Paulsen will fight it out in the quarter, with Clark of Yale conceded the odd point. FIGURES AND FANCY Harvard Yale Track Events 100-Yard 5 4 220-Yard 8 6 440-Yard 3 6 Half Mile 6 2 Mile 9 0 Two Mile 8 1 High Hurdles 8 6 Low Hurdles 8 6 Field Events Shot Put 6 3 Discus 6 5 Javelin 4 5 Hammer...
...expectations and succeeded in lopping a fifth of a second from his own record in the 100 yard dash, when he led Glendenning to the tape by four feet in an even ten second performance. The Dartmouth flyer, who was expected to challenge Miller again in the furlong race pulled a tendon in the broad jump and was unable to compete. Miller, because of this, was dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile mark of 40 seconds...
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