Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winning every one of these races in the field divisions the Bruins took the broad jump, high jump, and javelin throw, but their poor showing in the pole vault, and weight events showed the weakness of the Providence team. Captain John Collier of the Bruins, who is intercollegiate indoor hurdler, should top his event in the Stadium on Saturday, but Troy, Brown's leading dash man, will meet the strongest of competition...
...shut out is the 45-yard high hurdles. Caruthers of Cornell headed the timber-toppers in last year's classic, tying the triangular meet record of six seconds. Heasely, his teammate is not capable of equaling that performance, but is expected to finish a safe second. Alcorn, Green hurdler who captured second honors last year, is generally conceded the leader in this class. He has been clocked at 6 2-5 seconds in a recent time trial at Hanover in the 50 yard hurdles. Putnam will most probably finish third for another Dartmouth point...
Engaged. Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, 23, famed hurdler, member of the British Olympic track team this year, descendant of the first Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State; to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sportswoman, inheritor of a 400-year-old title; of London...
Hanover, N. H., February 23.-- E. M. Wells, captain and star hurdler of the Dartmouth track team, will probably not be able to compete in the Triangular track meet between Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell in the Arena Saturday night. Wells is at present in the hospital suffering from an injury to his instep which he received as a result of a fall in the New York Athletic Club Games Monday evening. Hot compresses are being constantly applied in an effort to reduce the swelling, which persists despite all treatment...
...changes in the rulings had to do with the hurdle events. The point was made at the convention that a runner who knocks down most of his hurdles suffered a sufficient handicap for not clearing them cleanly, so it was voted to do away with the rule disqualifying a hurdler for upsetting the barriers. A false start in a hurdle event has hither to been penalized by setting the runner back a yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever, and the rules were amended to allow a first false break go unpenalized, while a second would...