Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Runners returning from last year's varsity include Suivak, Thayer, Ruby and hurdler mcCormick. Among the wealth of Sophomore runners are Weiskopf, Cairns, Gregory, McGrath, Gruitzner, Montague and Berman, all members of last year's undefeated freshman team...
...first time since 1937, the combined Oxford-Cambridge track team was on a mission to the U.S. The purpose: to flex muscles, see the sights, win a few races. Explained one Oxford high-hurdler: "We try to be as casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...
...even more renown as a competitor who put as much emphasis on sportsmanship as on winning. In 1920, when he went to Antwerp as coach of the U.S. Olympic team, Jack Moakley had time for all foreign athletes who sought his advice and guidance. When Canada's star hurdler, Earl Thomson, went lame in practice, Moakley put his trainer to work on the sore spot; in the finals Thomson beat the U.S. men for the championship...
Durakis Is American Hurdler...
Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, world-record hurdler and Olympic-champion sprinter, who has reaped reams of publicity on the track, took off his spikes and put on another pair of shoes: he set to work grinding out publicity for the Cleveland Indians baseball team...