Word: lap
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Paull, of Pennsylvania, and McGee, of Princeton, as the most likely winners. For the first quarter Paull allowed his team-mate Tyson to set the pace. With McGee and Laird of Princeton and Coney of Yale he followed just behind the pace-maker. At the end of the first lap, however, Paull stepped into the lead, and from that time until the finish was never headed or even approached. For a while the two Princeton runners tried to hold the pace, but at the half mile Paull led by twenty yards, McGee was running alone in the second position, while...
...very start the Michigan runners took the leading positions. For the first three-quarters of a mile Hall, West and Dull, all of Michigan, ran in that order. Lightner of Yale was in fourth place, with Taylor of Cornell and Jaques several yards behind. On the fourth lap the first important change occurred when Taylor moved up into the lead. For a while Lightner of Yale took the lead, but when the final race for positions began he dropped rapidly behind. Early in the last lap Taylor began to sprint, Dull doggedly holding his position a few yards behind...
...Freshmen was shown in the distance runs, in which they won all three places. In the two-mile run Kaynor of Yale, after putting up a determined fight for a place; was unable to hold the pace against the beating wind and rain, and fell on the sixth lap, leaving four Harvard men to finish the race. The 880-yard run was easily won by Fernald, with Yale men second and third. The time of 2 minutes, 3 4-5 seconds, was good against the wind...
...half-mile run soon turned into a four-cornered race between R. W. Boyden '11, R. Warren '10, E. H. Ruch '10, and G. W. Ryley '10. These four men stayed together from the quarter-mile mark, but on the last lap the handicap proved too great for Ryley to overcome, and the other three finished ahead of him, in 2 minutes, 10 3-5 seconds...
...University relay team lost to Yale in an exciting race. Cutler, who swam last for Harvard, although half a lap behind at the start, finished a very close second. In fancy diving, E. H. Jose '10 won an evenly matched competition. R. W. Cutler '11 came in first in the 50-yard dash and the 22-yard and 100-yard swim...