Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Harvard and Yale took three of the next four events, the relay team composed of two men who had already run two races (Landau and Yeomans), a freshman who had never been in a relay (Luck), and a footsore hurdler (Carnev) gave the Americans a glorius victory...
...Hurdler Martin Lauer, 22, knows how to get in shape. His workouts, though short, are incredibly intense. His basic technique is a series of short, full-throttle sprints broken by what he calls Laufhupser (local dialect for grasshopper), i.e., a sort of Russian balletlike leap touching chest to thighs in midair...
...Hurdler Glenn Davis, who holds the Olympic title and world record for 400 meters, stumbled at the first barrier, suffered his first defeat since 1956, but still ran a strong second to surprising Dick Howard, 23, of the University of New Mexico...
Last spring, Crimson hurdler Joel Landau paced the Crimson by winning both the high and low hurdles, and a healthy Landau would be a sure bet to repeat his double triumph against mediocre opposition this year. But Landau has been hobbled all season long by recurrent foot troubles, and his status is in doubt...
...Crimson might have given Yale a battle if hurdler Joel Landau had not been forced to drop out of his first trial heat with a painful fallen arch. Even with his season-long form trouble, a healthy Landau could have equaled the 14.9 and 24.4 performances turned in by double-winner Angelo Sinisi of Brown...