Word: gourdin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard dash in the English meet held in March, Abrahams of Cambridge made the mark of 10 1-5 seconds; Gourdin last Saturday sprinted the distance in 10 2-5, but against the M. I. T. he reached 10 flat and against Penn State did 9 4-5. Feldman of Yale equalled the Englishman's record May 7 at Princeton. The American colleges, therefore, appear to have the advantage in this event...
...sprints and the hurdles the University is expected to outdo Yale by 2 to 1. Gourdin has an excellent chance to win both the 100 and 220-yard dashes; and he will be backed by Chapin, Howard, Kennedy and Evans, a quartet which Yale will have difficulty to beat. In the 440-yard event Wharton and Chute should do well, although Coxe of Yale is favored to win. All season Krogness and Fitts have made better times than the best Eli men in the 120-yard high and the 220-yard low hurdles respectively...
...five field events the winners in four can be forecast with little risk. For the University Gourdin should win the broad-jump, while Tolbert will probably score five points in the shot-put. Landon and Gardner in the high-jump and pole-vault respectively are confidently backed by Yale...
Running Broad-Jump.--Won by P. O. Gourdin '21 (H.), 23 feet 11 7-8 inches (new Harvard record); second. C. G. Krogness '21 (H.), 21 feet 3 1-2 inches; third. E. Prescott (T.), 20 feet 10 inches...
...Pound Shot-Put.--Won by J. R. Tolbert '22 (H.). 41 feet 9 1-2 inches; second, E. O. Gourdin '21 (H.). 39 feet 4 inches; third, C. G. Dandrow (T.) 38 feet 7 inches...