Word: lap
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Colwell 3G., scratch, won the 880 yards run, finishing 3 yards ahead of J. F. Henderson '05, who had a handicap of 40 yards. For the first lap and a quarter B. Merrill '06 set the pace, then Henderson took the lead, but was in turn passed by Colwell near the finish...
...most interesting race of the afternoon was the two-mile, which was won by R. C. Bollard '05, with a handicap of 150 yards. Bollard took the lead at the beginning of the third lap and held it until, on the fifth lap, he was passed by J. H. Hall 1G., handicapped at 60 yards. Up to within a few yards of the finish Hall was slightly in the lead, but Bollard passed him with a spurt just before he crossed the line...
...mile run W. A. Colwell 2G., ran a very pretty race from scratch. On the back stretch of the third lap he started to work to the front and took the lead at the beginning of the last lap, holding it to the end. He finished in the fast time of 4 m. 28 s. and fifteen yards ahead of R. W. Walsh 3L., who came in second...
Harvard entered a four-mile and a two-mile relay team in the ninth annual relay championship, held at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Saturday. With the exception of Colwell, Hall, Adams and Schick, the work was discouraging. In the two-mile race Curtis started for Harvard. On his second lap he gradually dropped back, finishing in third place, 10 yards behind Smith of Pennsylvania. Adams then took up the running for Harvard. He slowly closed up and finished close to Terry of Pennsylvania and McDonald of Columbia. Clerk, who ran next, gradually dropped back, so that when Foster took...
...last event on the programme. Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Chicago, and Columbia all entered teams. Hall, the first runner on the University team, ran a good race, but finished in fourth place. Stone, the second Harvard runner, seemed to be badly used up on his third lap and finished 230 yards behind McEachern of Wisconsin. Colwell then took up the race for Harvard and made the best time of the afternoon. Setting his own pace, he gradually gained on the entire field. At the end of his third lap the pace began to tell, but he managed to pass...