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With the Garden band's Old Howard music spurring it on, the varsity mile relay team established its superiority over Yale beyond a shadow of a doubt in the B.A.A. Meet Saturday night. It romped in 20 yards ahead of Dartmouth, and nearly a half-lap ahead of Yale in a creditable...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Relay Team Takes B.A.A. Relay From Yale Saturday | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Mike Robertson, leading off from lane two, moved ahead at the end of the first half-lap, maintained a two-yard lead over Yale's Ed Holahan, until just before the handoff, when he increased...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Relay Team Takes B.A.A. Relay From Yale Saturday | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Dave Norris, Dave Spinney, Bill Thompson, and Pete Reider could not match their Yale counterparts, finishing a half-lap behind the Elis, who beat B.U. by about ten yards. Pinceton finished third, 30 yards ahead of the Crimson...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Relay Team Takes B.A.A. Relay From Yale Saturday | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Seton Hall's freshman mile relay mark of 3:25.6 set back in 1940. Warren Little, lead-off man opened up a nine yard lead over Tufts and Yale on the first leg and by the time Alan Howe blazed across the finish mark, the Yardlings were almost a half-lap ahead of second place Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '55 Relay Team Misses Record in B.A.A. Meet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...last lap and a half, Cutler was trying to make up the inches he lost because of this, and went into his final turn without a breath--in other words, a sprint turn. The two dug water like 50-men for the last half-lap, and their leading arms came over for the final stroke together. But Choutean's hand slid under the line first, ending a superb contest in which both competitions swam their all-time fastest quarter-mile...

Author: By Charles N. Pollack ii, | Title: Cutler Exhibits Spectacular Swimming In His Last Meet, but Elis Rob Victory | 3/14/1940 | See Source »

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