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Both Simpson and Murray are good all round men. Simpson has broad jumped over 23 feet several times this year and has also equalled the world's record in the low hurdles. In addition to being a great hurdler, Murray is a crack sprinter and shot-putter, and has also scored points for his college in the high and broad jumps...
...Teschner '17, who was very successful last year. J. R. Foley '15 and B. Z. Nelson '15 in the 100, and W. Wilcox, Jr., '17 and R. Tower '15 in the 220, are nevertheless good performers. W. A. Meanix '17 has shown much ability as a hurdler. He will be supported by H. St.J. Smith...
...June, there remain good men in every event. If there is any cause for worry, it lies in the fact that there is a lack of good second and third-string material in some of the events. The following men did not return this year: W. F. Potter, hurdler, H. Harbison, shot-putter, R. Cook, broad-jumper, R. A. Douglas, high-jumper, and F. G. Hartswick, high-jumper. This leaves a large number of veterans of the team which defeated the University and Princeton and finished fifth in the intercollegiates. These are: Captain W. M. Shedden '15, G. E. Brown...
...Shedden, 1915, of Brookline, has been elected captain of the Yale University track team for next year. Shedden, who is a hurdler, won his "Y" last season, and this year performed consistently, placing in both the Harvard and the Princeton meet and getting fourth place in the low hurdles in the Intercollegiates. He prepared at Brookline High School where he was a classmate of Captain Capper of the University team...
...Jackson '14, hurdler on the University track team, was released from the Boston City Hospital Monday, where he has undergone an operation to remove a spur of his thigh bone, which was slightly splintered by a fall. Dr. Nichols has pronounced the operation successful, and does not expect it to impede his hurdling this spring...