Word: hurdlers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, was dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile mark of 40 seconds and came back in his second race to nip Wells, the speedy Dartmouth hurdler, as the finish of the 220 yard low hurdles for first honors in 25 seconds. Captain Tibbetts ran away from the field in the two mile run with E. C. Haggerty '27 chasing him all the way to the tape, to smash his own record by one and a fifth seconds...
...Connell prepared at Exeter where he was captain of the football team and for two years the leading hurdler on the track team. He played end on the 1929 eleven last fall and has been running in the hurdles and the sprints this spring. In the first meet of the season last Saturday, which the first year men lost to Andover, he took first in both the high and low hurdles, although the latter event has hitherto been his sole specialty...
...vault, setting a new meet record in the latter event when he cleared 12 feet in an exhibition leap after having won the event at 11 feet 3 inches. The former Harvard man was the outstanding individual contestant in the meet and shared with Lord Burghley, England's foremost hurdler, and R. S. Starr, Cambridge distance runner, the distinction of being winner of two first places...
...track tonight will be Boston College, with a nucleus of Hussey. Sophomore dash star, a two mile relay team which is reputed to be made up of four men who can average two or three seconds under the two minute mark for the half mile, and Murphy, a hurdler who has an imposing record in the national Junior and Senior A. A. U. contests last spring...
...Lundell '27, winner of the 220-yard dash in the Princeton meet last spring, F. P. Kane '26, quarter miler and hurdler, J. H. Broome '26, broad jumper and quarter miler, H. A. Secrist '27, broad jumper, Lee Combs, pole vaulter, S. D. Jones '27, high jumper, and J. M. Potter '26 will add strength to the Crimson track hopes...