Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After Harvard and Yale took three of the next four events, the relay team composed of two men who had already run two races (Landau and Yeomans), a freshman who had never been in a relay (Luck), and a footsore hurdler (Carnev) gave the Americans a glorius victory...
...many, it was the end of a psychological battle that had been going on ever since the Americans had arrived in England. The British constantly regaled their visitors with tales of drinking and smoking during training season, and nearly every night they conducted the Harvard and Yale men on a tour of the local pubs in an effort to substantiate their stories...
...drinking and smoking aren't the ones we'll be running against, but they don't tell us that." The psychological warfare reached its peak the Sunday before the meet, when Oxford's Gilligan took his workout with two Yale men and ran them into the ground, and Harvard's Benjamin retaliated by doing eight consecutive quarter miles under 60.0, two of them faster than his previous personal best...
...victory in White City Stadium marked the end of an internal clash as well. During the tense Harvard-Yale workouts charges like "Harvard (or Yale) isn't training" gradually turned into even more bitter remarks such as "Of course we want to win, but we want the first places to be Yale (or Harvard) first places." This bickering continued right up to the day of the meet, but by the time the final relay was run off, the honor of America had overshadowed all other concerns...
...affairs in an aura of accord, there was no slackening of rivalry between the two universities on the athletic field. The former athletes simply felt that preservation of Oxford and Cambridge track was more important than preserving either Oxford or Cambridge alone. It is an attitude that Harvard and Yale alumni may be forced to contemplate in the near future...