Word: haegg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advice of his doctors, who believe that his health would be affected if he stopped running all at once, Dodds is now "working himself town" from the form he exhibited in his races with Gunder Haegg. Interviewed by a SERVICE NEWS reporter yesterday, Dodds said, in answer to questions about his retirement, that he was giving up running in the interests of his ministerial work, sice he doesn't have time to do both. Dodds is taking graduate work at the School of Education...
Among the ace runners who have volunteered to race the treadmill are Glenn Cunningham, Gil Dodds, Gene Fenske, and Gunder Haegg. Haegg astounded the doctors by turning in a better performance running 11 miles an hour than an ordinary man can at seven. They described the lanky Swede as "the most beautiful running machine" they had seen...
...last time Dodds appeared here was last July when he was nipped by Gunder Haegg in a mile race at the Stadium. Both Haegg and Dodds at the time broke the existing American record, even though Dodds finished second...
Dartmouth boasts of the best collection of sprinters, with Haegg chaser Don Burnham and a host of NYU's stars from last year...
Dodda came up from his position here to finish eight yards behind Haegg and run the fastest mile over run by an American, 4:06.5. Hulse feel back to third in the final reckoning, but he stayed at Haegg's shoulder until the final turn. The NYU 800 meter champion turned in the third fastest mile run by an American as he wearily tailed Dodda by four yards...