Word: furlong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Donahue high - scored the Varsity meeting with 13 tallies through his hurdles' grand slam, doing the 120-yard lows in 15.3 and the 220-highs in a mediocre 24.7 seconds, and a second place in the furlong dash. In the two timber races his teammates Roger Schafer and Don MacKinnon exchanged seconds and thirds for a Crimson sweep of the events...
Only Jim Welsh of Michigan and possibly his teammate, Jack Patten, can be rated above the Crimson captain, who turned in a sizzling 2:13.8 to win the furlong in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Annapolis last Saturday. Welsh swam a 2:11.4 earlier in the season, but Powers was clocked in 2:11.2 in a practice session and with two more weeks of training might conceivably chop off a few more tenths of a second...
Powers, who recently squelched Yale's famed freestyler Johnson with 2:14.5 for the furlong, qualified with a slow 2:15.2, finishing fourth in his heat. Tomorrow's finals will be a more strenuous test for the tankmen, as they will meet the champion college swimmers of the East...
...league race with four wins and two losses, will not only enter the 100-yard sprint and fight it out with Johnson and Captain Sanburn of Yale in the 220 but is also scheduled to swim anchor man in the 400-yard relay. His best race is the furlong in which he is undefeated this season...
...furlong, plucky Francis Powers, captain and leading scorer of the Crimson will be up against two of a trio of the country's speediest middle distance men, Captain Sanburn, Howie Johnson and Rene Chouteau. Powers is undefeated in this event so far this year and his best time, 2:15.4, is only a shade over Sanburn's fastest clocking...