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...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...
...Georgetown array is impressive, but very close to it comes the Crimson offering of Miller, Fletcher, Tibbetts, Allen, Kane, Watters, Lundell, Chapin, Cutcheon, Berglund and Captain Dunker. Rumors have been afloat during the past week of remarkable performances these athletes were turning in on the board track at Soldiers Field. The one about Miller breaking the world time in the 70-yard dash on the M. I. T. track is known to be authentic. Fletcher, the hurdler who broke into fame last week, has shown by the consistant repetition of his world record performance that the stopwatches at Mechanics Hall...
Barker, Kobes, Cutcheon and Chapin will constitute the two-mile team. Both Georgetown and Boston College are in their road to victory, but the Crimson team will be distinctly in the running...