Word: hurdler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, the condition of Captain Bill Geick and hurdler Charlie Durakis was still indefinite. They may be out for several meets due to their leg injuries...
Charlie Durakis in the hurdles, Pete Dow, Captain Bill Geick in sprints, and Ed Grutzner, Ronnie Berman, Hugh Maguire, Dave Cairna, Dave Gregory, and Hal Gerry in the longer races are all probable scorers in the running events Top hurdler Bob Twitchell has a slight injury and may not compete...
...seven man track team will travel to Birmingham, Alabama, as the guests of the Birmingham Harvard Club. Coach Jaakko Mikkola has been asked to furnish one hurdler, a sprint medley team (880, 220, and one-quarter mile) and a mile relay team. Mikkola will hold time trials for all positions except the hurdler, who will be Bob Twitchell...
...counter Old Soldier Downer, the Liberal coalition put up a speaker whose war record entitled him to talk "in the same fashion. Interior Minister W. S. Kent Hughes, 56, fought in Gallipoli and Palestine in World War I, was a Rhodes scholar and an Olympic hurdler between wars, and in World War II fought in Malaya as a staff officer of the 8th division. Captured at the same time as Downer, he also spent 3½ years in Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path...
...five Americans who will be competing in the meet for the second time, three won points in 1949. Eli George Appel tied for pole-vault honors, while Yale's high-jumping Hipple twins shared first in their event. Crimson hurdler Charlie Durakis, however, narrowly missed winning the 120-yard high hurdles. He knocked over the last hurdle and lost, after holding a six-foot lead most of the way. Bill Geick, the other Crimson returnee, lost the 1949 broad-jump by an inch and three-quarters...