Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford, for the first time in eight years: its annual track meet with Cambridge, 8 events to 3, with five firsts by three U. S. athletes-Charles Stanwood, Bowdoin hurdler & high-jumper, Julius Byles, Princeton shotputter, and Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Harvard half-miler; in London...
...field events confronts coaches C. F. Gallagher and Jaakko Mikkola in their Fall track squad. Graduation last June robbed the team of four Intercollegiate champions, as well as much other material. The champions graduated last June were M. J. Finlayson, Indoor intercollegiate weight throw champion, E. E. Record, hurdler, N. P. Hallowell, half-miler, and Oscar Sutermeister, pole-vaulter...
...timing, done by a combined camera and stopwatch operated by electricity, switched on by the starting gun and stopped by the breaking of the tape. It was partly due to the track in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Five years ago a Los Angeles hurdler named Kelly, practicing on a disused trotting track near Los Angeles, found the surface particularly fast and springy. Los Angeles contractors said the track was made of peat. The Olympic Committee used crushed peat (taken from Baldwin Hills where is the Olympic Village) for the track in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Six footraces last week proved...
...track coaches had been trying to pick an Olympic team last week, all these would have been on it. So would Eddie Tolan; Hurdler Percy Beard, who is a chemical engineering instructor at Alabama Polytechnical Institute; Hector Dyer, Bill Graber, Pen Hallowell. Coaches might have had sharp differences of opinion as to the rest of the team but there was one other name which they surely would have chosen-Benjamin Bangs Eastman...
...Wednesday's time trials Record led G. B. Clark 1G.B., former Cornell hurdler who placed second to the Crimson champion in the intercollegiates last year, to the tape by a few inches in the 70-yard hurdle race. He was clocked at 8 4-5 seconds, a record which indicates that he is at his best and should lead the field on Saturday. Dodge, who created a new H--D--C record in the 300-yard dash last week, will have an opportunity to display his ability in the shorter 70-yard distance and is to run number...