Word: hops
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unusual performances are expected. The events will be as follows: 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard run, 880-yard run, mile run, 5-mile run, 120-yard hurdle race, 220-yard hurdle race, 440-yard hurdle race, 3-mile walk, pole-vault, high jump, broad jump, running hop-step and jump, throwing 56-pound weight, 16-pound hammer-throw, 16-pound shot-put, throwing the discus and the javelin...
...mostly of events for local schools and colleges. The only big event taken from Saturday's program will be the hammer throw which will be held on Friday. Three other special events will be given on Friday, namely, the 56-pound weight for distance, 440-yard hurdle and the hop, step, and jump...
...have been added. One of these is a pentathlon, modelled after that held at the ancient Olympic games. This will consist of the following contests: running broad jump, throwing the javelin, throwing the discus, 200 meter race and 1500 meter race. Contests will also be held in the running hop, step, and jump, 56-pound hammer-throw and probably a 400-meter hurdle race...
...committee yesterday announced the make-up of the American team which will compete in the Olympic games in Stockholm this summer. Two Harvard men were among those chosen, Charles E. Brickley '15, of Everett, and Barton J. Haggard 1G., of Des Moines, Ia.; the former will compete in the hop, step and jump, and the latter has been chosen as a supplementary man in the pole-vault. Brickley prepared at Exeter, where he took a prominent part in track athletics, as well as playing football and baseball. Haggard graduated from Drake University, Iowa, in 1908 and is at present...
...following Harvard men have been entered: High jump S. C. Lawrence, G. B., A. W. Moffat '13; 70-yard high hurdle race--J. B. Cummings '13; throwing 56-pound weight for height, T. Cable 13; running hop, step and jump C. E. Brickley...