Word: goodwin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dartmouth, Cornell, University of Virginia, University of California, and University of Michigan have united with the nine other American colleges in support of the American school at Athens. Professor Packard of Yale sails this month to take charge of the school for a year, succeeding Professor Goodwin...
...RICHMOND PARSONS,H. GOODWIN LOCKE,G. LINDALL WINTHROP,Committee...
...best American collegiate record in the quarter-mile run is 50 3/4 seconds, by W. H. Goodwin, Jr., Harvard, at Harvard games, Jarvis Field, Cambridge, Mass., May 24, 1881. We are aware that, in the Yale games, at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Conn., May, 19, 1883, H. S. Brooks, Jr., Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...
...next event was the quarter mile run. This was expected to be the finest race of the day as Brooks of Yale, with the best college record of 50 2-5 seconds, and Goodwin of Harvard, with a record of 50 3/4 seconds, were both entered. To the disappointment of all Brooks did not come to the scratch. Baker of Harvard did not run. Goodwin took the lead but did not run his best until the home stretch, when he drew away from his competitors and crossed the line in 51 1-5 seconds. Hodge of Princeton came second...
...half-mile run there were nine entries. Trask of Harvard took the lead, running in beautiful form followed closely by Goodwin. Trask struck a tremendous gait and soon all the contestants but Goodwin fell far behind. About a hundred and fifty yards from the finish, Goodwin passed Trask and came in at almost a hundred yards gait, crossing the line in 2 minutes 2 seconds. Trask's time was 2 minutes 5 seconds...