Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first time in the history of A. A. U. indoor championships there is a chance that the athletes from the West will carry off the honors. Entries for the meet closed Saturday night, and the list is the largest and most representative ever received for an indoor championship meeting. Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Chicago, Columbia, Holy Cross, M. I. T., and many others have entered the best of their runners...
...predicament similar to the one just described. Nothing more than a live interest on the part of both undergraduates and graduates is needed to obviate the present difficulties. No other sport gives one so many thrills or has such moments of tense excitement as track. Whether it is an indoor meet or the intercollegiates at the Stadium, the spectators are assured at least one heart-breaking finish or a battle royal between two pole-vaulters. The imperative need today is a greater and more active support for the team. There are plenty of point-winners in College who would...
Captain Moore, who won the 220-yard dash and took second place in the 100-yard last year at the 1916 intercollegiates, will again compete, and will be the leading man in the sprints. Moore has been running in a number of indoor meets this winter, and has been a consistent point-winner. Jelke, Barrett and Read will be the other men in the sprints. The first two were university men last season, and Read was the foremost sprinter on the Freshman team. In the quarter-mile, Clark, who made the distance in 50 4-5 seconds last season while...
...University's representatives in the eighth annual indoor carnival held under the auspices of the Meadowbrook Club at Philadelphia Saturday night won the mile intercollegiate relay, took third place in the mile handicap run, and a fourth place in the pole vault. In the relay race the team won the intercollegiate championship against Holy Cross, Princeton, Cornell, and Pennsylvania in the fast time of three minutes 26 and 3-5 seconds. This time is within one and one-fifth seconds of the world's record, and is one-fifth second slower than the time made by the team...
...world's indoor records were broken by the competitors in the races. Captain Overton of Yale broke the indoor record of four minutes 18 and 1-5 seconds in winning the mile race in four minutes 16 seconds, and W. T. Hobbs of Dartmouth lowered by one-fifth of a second the record for the 50-yard high hurdles, when he covered the distance in six and four-fifths seconds. Overton ran the latter half of his race faster than the first, the time by quarters reading...