Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen engaged in a five game trip during the week. Coach Mahan's men went as far south as Maryland where they won their first three games from Catholic University, the University of Maryland and the Navy, but succumbed in the last two to the powerful nines from Georgetown and Columbia. The Freshmen, however, gained an unblemished record for their journey by starting at home with the defeat of Williston Academy and then taking decisive wins from four preparatory schools. Pomfret, Loomis, Hotchkiss, and Choate...
...last games should afford the greatest opposition which the team will meet on the trip. Georgetown, which it will face on Friday, administered an 8 to 4 trouncing last year and already has victories over Yale and Boston College to its credit. The final game is with Columbia on Saturday, as it was last year when the New York nine shut out the University...
...collegians, throwing away their cigaret butts, entered a Manhattan Armory to watch the annual indoor meet of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America. At midnight they emerged, hastily relighted their cigarets, having seen seven records, including two world mark's, lowered, having seen the athletes of Georgetown University pile up 37 points against 24 1/4 for Harvard, 221/2 for Pennsylvania, while 19 other famed institutions straggled after...
...university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke the world...
...that organization be held next May on Franklin Field in Philadelphia. At the same meeting an amendment to the constitution was made providing that no individual can participate in a meet for more than three years. Had this ruling gone into effect for Saturday's meet, as many urged, Georgetown's chances would have been seriously impaired, as several of her representatives have competed already for three years. A strong protest, however, by the University delegation against the immediate application of this rule resulted in its suspension until the beginning of the next college year...